Laws and societies in the Canadian prairie west, 1670-1940

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Laws and societies in the Canadian prairie west, 1670-1940

edited by Louis A. Knafla and Jonathan Swainger

(Law and society series)

UBC Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : laws and societies in the Anglo-Canadian north-west frontier and prairie provinces, 1670-1940 / Louis A. Knafla
  • Law and necessity in Western Rupert's Land and beyond, 1670-1870 / Hamar Foster
  • "There seemed to be no recognized law" : Canadian law and the prairie first nations / Sidney L. Harring
  • The exclusionary effect of colonial law : indigenous peoples and English law in Western Canada, 1670-1870 / Russell C. Smandych
  • Discipline and discretion in the mid-eighteenth-century Hudson's Bay Company private justice system / Paul C. Nigol
  • Policing two imperial frontiers : the Royal Irish Constabulary and the North-West Mounted Police / Greg Marquis
  • The common law and justices of the supreme court of the North-West Territories : the first generation, 1887-1907 / Roderick G. Martin
  • The implications of a provincial police force in Alberta and Saskatchewan / Zhiqiu Lin and Augustine Brannigan
  • The development of Prairie Canada's water law, 1870-1940 / Tristan M. Goodman
  • Monopolies and state regulation : the calgary power company, utilities, and the Alberta Public Utilities Board, 1910-30 / Janice Erion
  • The law and public nudity : prairie and West Coast reactions to the sons of freedom, 1929-1932 / John McLaren

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