Full Description
The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole.
The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women's studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Quebec and the Canadas, 1760 to 1867: A Legal Historiography
G. BLAINE BAKER
Les débuts de la littérature juridique québécoise, 1767-1840
SYLVIO NORMAND
Les revendications des nouveaux sujets, francophones et catholiques, de la Province de Québec, 1764-1774
MICHEL MORIN
"A just and obvious distinction": The Meaning of Imprisonment for Debt and the Criminal Law in Upper Canada's Age of Reform
JEFFREY L. M CNAIRN
The Law of Nations in the Borderlands: Sovereignty and Self-Defence in the Rebellion Period, 1837-1842
BRADLEY MILLER
Minority Groups and the Law in Quebec, 1760-1867
DONALD FYSON
Être « demanderesse » en Justice: Permanences civilistes dans la Province de Québec, de la Juridiction royale de Montréal (1740-1760) à la Cour des plaids communs de Montréal (1760-1791)
DAVID GILLES
"To shudder at the bare recital of those acts": Child Abuse, Family, and Montreal Courts in the Early Nineteenth Century
IAN C. PILAR CZYK
Married Women's Property Law Reform, Couples, and Fraud in Canada West / Ontario, 1859-1900
LORI CHAMBERS
From Shaved Horses to Aggressive Churchwardens: Social and Legal Aspects of Moral Injury in Lower Canada
ERIC H. REITER
"Possession of arms among these men ... might lead to serious consequences": Regulating Firearms in the Canadas, 1760-1867
R. BLAKE BROWN
Grand Juries and "Proper Authorities": Low Law, Soft Law, and Local Governance in Canada West / Ontario, 1850-1880
MARY STOKES
Contributors
Index
