TY - BOOK AU - Foster,Hamar AU - McLaren,John TI - Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VI: British Columbia and the Yukon T2 - Essays in the History of Canadian Law Series SN - 9781442657021 AV - KE44 .E873 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Law-Canada-History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - These essays look at key social, economic, and political issues of the times and show how they influenced the developing legal system UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4670125 ER -