Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Foreword x
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Special Acknowledgment xiv
6. Contributors xvi
7. 1. Richard C.B. Risk: A Tribute 1
8. 2. R.C.B. Risk’s Canadian Legal History 17
9. 3. ‘Your Conscience Will Be Your Own Punishment’: The Racially Motivated Murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902 61
10. 4. Ontario Water Quality, Public Health, and the Law, 1880–1930 115
11. 5. ‘The Modern Spirit of the Law’: Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877 142
12. 6. A Romance of the Lost: The Role of Tom MacInnes in the History of the British Columbia Indian Land Question 171
13. 7. Taking Litigation Seriously: The Market Wharf Controversy at Halifax, 1785–1820 213
14. 8. ‘Our Arctic Brethren’: Canadian Law and Lawyers as Portrayed in American Legal Periodicals, 1829–1911 241
15. 9. Conservative Insurrection: Great Strikes and Deep Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and London, Ontario, 1898–1899 281
16. 10. Gooderham & Worts: A Case Study in Business Organization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario 335
17. 11. The Sacred Rights of Property: Title, Entitlement, and the Land Question in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island 358
18. 12. Race and the Criminal Justice System in British Columbia, 1892–1920: Constructing Chinese Crimes 398
19. 13. Power, Politics, and the Law: The Place of the Judiciary in the Historiography of Upper Canada 443
20. 14. The Criminal Trial in Nova Scotia, 1749–1815 469
21. 15. ‘The Disquisitions of Learned Judges’: Making Manitoba Lawyers, 1885–1931 512
22. 16. The Law of Evolution and the Evolution of the Law: Mills, Darwin, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Legal Thought 561
23. R.C.B. Risk Bibliography 583
24. Publications of The Osgoode Society 587