Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk

Published by University of Toronto Press 1999

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII

In Honour of R.C.B. Risk

Edited by: George Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips

In the series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

In the series Essays in the History of Canadian Law

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442620797

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Contents

About this book

The collected essays in this volume represent the highlights of legal historical scholarship in Canada today. All of the essays refer back in some form to Risk’s own work in the field.

Author / Editor information

Baker George Blaine :

George Blaine Baker is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.

Phillips Jim :

Jim Phillips is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	x
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xii
Special Acknowledgment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiv
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvi
1. Richard C.B. Risk: A Tribute Robert W. Gordon and David Sugarman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. R.C.B. Risk’s Canadian Legal History G. Blaine Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. ‘Your Conscience Will Be Your Own Punishment’: The Racially Motivated Murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902 Constance Backhouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. Ontario Water Quality, Public Health, and the Law, 1880–1930 Jamie Benidickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
5. ‘The Modern Spirit of the Law’: Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877 Paul Craven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
6. A Romance of the Lost: The Role of Tom MacInnes in the History of the British Columbia Indian Land Question Hamar Foster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
7. Taking Litigation Seriously: The Market Wharf Controversy at Halifax, 1785–1820 Philip Girard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
8. ‘Our Arctic Brethren’: Canadian Law and Lawyers as Portrayed in American Legal Periodicals, 1829–1911 Bernard J. Hibbitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
9. Conservative Insurrection: Great Strikes and Deep Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and London, Ontario, 1898–1899 R.W. Kostal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
10. Gooderham & Worts: A Case Study in Business Organization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario C. Ian Kyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
11. The Sacred Rights of Property: Title, Entitlement, and the Land Question in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island Margaret E. Mccallum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
12. Race and the Criminal Justice System in British Columbia, 1892–1920: Constructing Chinese Crimes John Mclaren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	398
13. Power, Politics, and the Law: The Place of the Judiciary in the Historiography of Upper Canada Peter Oliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
14. The Criminal Trial in Nova Scotia, 1749–1815 Jim Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
15. ‘The Disquisitions of Learned Judges’: Making Manitoba Lawyers, 1885–1931 W. Wesley Pue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	512
16. The Law of Evolution and the Evolution of the Law: Mills, Darwin, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Legal Thought Robert Vipond and Georgina Feldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
R.C.B. Risk Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
Publications of The Osgoode Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 606

eBook

Published: December 15, 1999
ISBN: 9781442620797