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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VI : British Columbia and the Yukon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Essays in the History of Canadian Law SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (605 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442657021
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VILOC classification:
  • KE44 .E873 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Hard Choices and Sharp Edges: The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon -- PART I: ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AND THE LAW -- 2 Letting Go the Bone: The Idea of Indian Title in British Columbia, 1849-1927 -- 3 'Where Is the Justice, Mr Mills?': A Case Study of R. v. Nantuck -- 4 Tonto's Due: Law, Culture, and Colonization in British Columbia -- PART II: VICE, CRIME, AND POLICING -- 5 Swift Justice and the Decline of the Criminal Trial Jury: The Dynamics of Law and Authority in Victoria, BC, 1858-1905 -- 6 A Distant Edge of Authority: Capital Punishment and the Prerogative of Mercy in British Columbia, 1872-1880 -- 7 Vancouver Vice: The Police and the Negotiation of Morality, 1904-1935 -- 8 The Making of Criminal Insanity in British Columbia: Granby Farrant and the Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz, 1919-1933 -- PART III: RELIGION AND EDUCATION -- 9 Judgments of Solomon: Law, Doctrine, and the Cridge Controversy of 1872-1874 -- 10 Creating 'Slaves of Satan' or 'New Canadians'?: The Law, Education, and the Socialization of Doukhobor Children, 1911-1935 -- PART IV: LABOUR AND SOCIAL WELFARE -- 11 After Union Colliery: Law, Race, and Class in the Coalmines of British Columbia -- 12 For God, Country, and the Public Purse: 'Liberal' Politics and the Campaign for Family Courts in British Columbia, 1939-1945 -- PART V: THE LEGAL PROFESSION -- 13 Fighting Spirits: The Yukon Legal Profession, 1898-1912 -- 14 Exclusionary Tactics: The History of Women and Visible Minorities in the Legal Profession in British Columbia -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Publications of The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Summary: These essays look at key social, economic, and political issues of the times and show how they influenced the developing legal system.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Hard Choices and Sharp Edges: The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon -- PART I: ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AND THE LAW -- 2 Letting Go the Bone: The Idea of Indian Title in British Columbia, 1849-1927 -- 3 'Where Is the Justice, Mr Mills?': A Case Study of R. v. Nantuck -- 4 Tonto's Due: Law, Culture, and Colonization in British Columbia -- PART II: VICE, CRIME, AND POLICING -- 5 Swift Justice and the Decline of the Criminal Trial Jury: The Dynamics of Law and Authority in Victoria, BC, 1858-1905 -- 6 A Distant Edge of Authority: Capital Punishment and the Prerogative of Mercy in British Columbia, 1872-1880 -- 7 Vancouver Vice: The Police and the Negotiation of Morality, 1904-1935 -- 8 The Making of Criminal Insanity in British Columbia: Granby Farrant and the Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz, 1919-1933 -- PART III: RELIGION AND EDUCATION -- 9 Judgments of Solomon: Law, Doctrine, and the Cridge Controversy of 1872-1874 -- 10 Creating 'Slaves of Satan' or 'New Canadians'?: The Law, Education, and the Socialization of Doukhobor Children, 1911-1935 -- PART IV: LABOUR AND SOCIAL WELFARE -- 11 After Union Colliery: Law, Race, and Class in the Coalmines of British Columbia -- 12 For God, Country, and the Public Purse: 'Liberal' Politics and the Campaign for Family Courts in British Columbia, 1939-1945 -- PART V: THE LEGAL PROFESSION -- 13 Fighting Spirits: The Yukon Legal Profession, 1898-1912 -- 14 Exclusionary Tactics: The History of Women and Visible Minorities in the Legal Profession in British Columbia -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Publications of The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

These essays look at key social, economic, and political issues of the times and show how they influenced the developing legal system.

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