Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940

Louis A. Knafla is professor emeritus of history at the University of Calgary. Jonathan Swainger is associate professor of history at the University of Northern British Columbia and co-editor, with Constance Backhouse, of People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture, also published by UBC Press.

Illustrations

Preface

1. Introduction: Laws and Societies in the Anglo-Canadian North-West Frontiers and Prairie Provinces, 1670-1940 / Louis A. Knafla

Part One: First Nations and First Peoples

2. Law and Necessity in Western Rupert's Land and Beyond, 1670-1870 / Hamar Foster

3. “There Seemed to be No Recognized Law”: Canadian Law and the Prairie First Nations / Sidney L. Harring

4. The Exclusionary Effect of Colonial Law: Indigenous Peoples and English Law in Western Canada, 1670-1870 / Russell C. Smandych

5. Discipline and Discretion in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Hudson's Bay Company Private Justice System / Paul C. Nigol

Part Two: Adaptations to Modernity

6. Policing Two Imperial Frontiers: The Royal Irish Constabulary and the North-West Mounted Police / Greg Marquis

7. The Common Law and Justices of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories: The First Generation, 1887-1907 / Roderick G. Martin

8. The Implications of a Provincial Police Force in Alberta and Saskatchewan / Zhiqiu Lin and Augustine Brannigan

9. The Development of Prairie Canada's Water Law, 1870-1940 / Tristan M. Goodman

10. Monopolies and State Regulation: The Calgary Power Company, Utilities, and the Alberta Public Utilities Board, 1910-30 / Janice Erion

11. The Law and Public Nudity: Prairie and West Coast Reactions to the Sons of Freedom, 1929-1932 / John McLaren

Acknowledgments Contributors General Index Index of Cases Index of Ordinances, Proclamations, and Statutes