Canadian State Trials : : Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914 / / Barry Wright, Susan Binnie.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Binnie, Susan,; Wright, Barry,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Canadian State Trials ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change. Trials for treason and related political offences, suspensions of habeas corpus, and other public order and security-related measures, supported by new institutions such as secret policing, are studied in essays by leading scholars in the field.The book is divided into four parts: trials and related proceedings arising from the Fenian invasions; attempts to regulate large-scale manifestations of public disorder; trials following the North-West Rebellions of 1870 and 1885, including the Riel trial; and the modernization and enforcement of Canada?s national security laws. Building upon the established scholarship of the series, the essays place these legal responses in context, shedding light on the complex and changing relationship between law and politics in Canadian history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures / Binnie, Susan / Wright, Barry -- Part One: Fenians -- 1. 'Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown': The Fenian State Trials, 1866-7 / Brown, R. Blake -- 2. The D'Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus / Wilson, David A. -- Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder -- 3. The Tenant League and the Law, 1864-7 / Robertson, Ian Ross -- 4. The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841-92 / Fyson, Donald -- 5. Maintaining Order on the Pacific Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869-85 / Binnie, Susan -- 6. Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886-1914 / Tucker, Eric -- Part Three: The North-West Rebellions -- 7. Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874 / Knafla, Louis A. -- 8. Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis / Beal, Bob / Wright, Barry -- 9. Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason / Bumsted, J.M. -- 10. The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials / Waiser, Bill -- Part Four: Securing the Dominion -- 11. 'High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions': Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860-1914 / Parnaby, Andrew / Kealey, Gregory S. / Niergarth, Kirk -- 12. Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892 / Brown, Desmond H. / Wright, Barry -- Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting Documents -- Appendix A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival Research / Cumming, Judi -- Appendix B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel's Rebellion / Lesage, Gilles -- Appendix C. Supporting Documents -- Index -- Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History