Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. ‘A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country’: Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia 23
6. Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849–78: Care, Cure, or Confinement? 63
7. Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871–1927 97
8. Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re)Formation of the ‘Private’ in British Columbia, 1890–1940 120
9. ‘Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another’: Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia 145
10. Regulating the ‘Respectable’ Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914–35 170
11. Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia’s Mass Exile of Chinese ‘Lunatics’ aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 196
12. The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939–45 231
13. The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950–60 259
14. Postlude 294
15. Contributors 309
16. Index 311