Description
Book SynopsisThe third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change. Trials for treason and related political offences, suspensions of habeas corpus, and other public order and security-related measures, supported by new institutions such as secret policing, are studied in essays by leading scholars in the field.
The book is divided into four parts: trials and related proceedings arising from the Fenian invasions; attempts to regulate large-scale manifestations of public disorder; trials following the North-West Rebellions of 1870 and 1885, including the Riel trial; and the modernization and enforcement of Canada''s national security laws. Building upon the established scholarship of the series, the essays place these legal responses in context, shedding light on the
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This book offers a fascinating window onto a broader legal and political culture in the process of being forged in the decades before and after Confederation. -- Robert Diab, Canadian Journal of Law & Society, vol 25:02:10
‘Binnie & Wright have produced a book that provides much needed background to the current situation in Canada, and one that will prove to be an excellent resource for scholars of modern legal responses to security threats… This volume highlights the importance of this series to our understanding of both Canadian legal history and the development of the Canadian state.’ -- Sarah E. Hamil * Labour/Le Travail vol 66: Fall 2010 *
Table of Contents
Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures Susan Binnie and Barry Wright Part One: Fenians 1 ‘Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown’: The Fenian State Trials, 1866–7 R. Blake Brown 2 The D’Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus David A. Wilson Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder 3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864–7 Ian Ross Robertson 4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841–92 Donald Fyson 5 Maintaining Order on the Pacifi c Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869–85 Susan Binnie 6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886–1914 Eric Tucker Part Three: The North-West Rebellions 7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874 Louis A. Knafl A 8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis Bob Beal And Barry Wright 9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason J.M. Bumsted 10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials Bill Waiser Part Four: Securing the Dominion 11 ‘High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions’: Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860–1914 Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth 12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892 Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting Documents A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival Research Judi Cumming B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel’s Rebellion Gilles Lesage C. Supporting Documents Index
