The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole. The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women's studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442648155
ISBN-13
9781442648159
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189377143
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback, With Dust Jacket
Language
English
Subject
Law: General & Référence
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Edited by
Donald Fyson, G. Blaine Baker
Series Title
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Content Note
3 Figures
Author Biography
George Blaine Baker is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.Donald Fyson is a professor in the Department of History at l'Universite Laval.