A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two: Law for a New Dominion, 1867-1914

A History of Law in Canada, Volume 2: The Law and Legal Institutions explores how law was essential to the building of a new urban industrial nation and the co-existence of European and Indigenous law. It covers the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including legal pluralism, the Métis and Red River Resistance, the Indian Act, and residential schools.

Format: Hardback
Length: 800 pages
Publication date: 14 November 2022
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

This is the second of three volumes in a significant collection that chronicles the extensive history of law in Canada. The time covered in this volume saw both continuity and change in the interactions between law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white settlers. The authors investigate how law was as crucial to the establishment of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the formation of colonies of agricultural settlement and resource exploitation. The book addresses the most significant developments in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including legal pluralism and the coexistence of European and Indigenous law. It pays particular attention to the Métis and the Red River Resistance, the Indian Act, and the origins and expansion of residential schools in Canada. The book is divided into four parts: the law and legal institutions; Indigenous peoples and Dominion law; capital, labor, and criminal justice; and those less favored by the law. A History of Law in Canada examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term.

This is the second of three volumes in a significant collection that chronicles the extensive history of law in Canada. The time covered in this volume saw both continuity and change in the interactions between law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white settlers. The authors investigate how law was as crucial to the establishment of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the formation of colonies of agricultural settlement and resource exploitation. The book addresses the most significant developments in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including legal pluralism and the coexistence of European and Indigenous law. It pays particular attention to the Métis and the Red River Resistance, the Indian Act, and the origins and expansion of residential schools in Canada. The book is divided into four parts: the law and legal institutions; Indigenous peoples and Dominion law; capital, labor, and criminal justice; and those less favored by the law. A History of Law in Canada examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term.

Weight: 1282g
Dimension: 238 x 162 x 53 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487545673