Overview
Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts-and why we study them.Telling new stories-about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more-this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archival records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels.
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Author: Lyndsay Campbell , Ted McCoy , Melanie Methot , Nick Austin
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.835kg
ISBN: 9781773851518
ISBN 10: 1773851519
Pages: 372
Publication Date: 30 May 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand 
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Table of Contents
"Foreword: A Student's Take on Canada's Legal Pasts, Nick Austin Introduction: Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back, Ted McCoy, Lyndsay Campbell, Mélanie Méthot Part I: Illuminating Cases Family Defamation in Quebec: The View from the Archives, Eric H. Reiter Writing Penitentiary History, Ted McCoy Analyzing Bigamy Cases without Archival Records: It Is Possible, Mélanie Méthot Trial Pamphlets and Newspaper Accounts, Lyndsay Campbell The Last Voyage of the Frederick Gerring, Jr, Christopher Shorey The Textbook Edition of Kent's Commentaries Used in the Gerring, Angela Fernandez Part II: Exploring Systems Empire's Law: Archives and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Catharine MacMillan Practising Law in the ""Lawyerless"" Colony of New France, Alexandra Havrylyshyn Poursuivre son mari en justice au Bas-Canada: femmes mariées et coutume de Paris devant la cour du Banc du roi (1795-1830) , Jean-Philippe Garneau Getting Their Man: The NWMP as Accused in the Territorial Criminal Court in the Canadian North-West, 1876-1905, Shelley A.M. Gavigan Part III: Writing Legal History: Past, Present and Future Sex Discrimination in Law: From Equal Citizenship to Human Rights Law, Dominique Clément Legal-Historical Writing for the Canadian Prairies: Past, Present, Future, Louis A. Knafla Primary source bibliography Secondary source bibliography Contributors Index"
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Lyndsay Campbell is an associate professor in Law and History at the University of Calgary. Ted McCoy is an assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Calgary. Melanie Methot is an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus.
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