Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Contributors xv
6. Introduction
7. 1. Hard Choices and Sharp Edges: The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon 3
8. Part I: Aboriginal People and the Law
9. 2. Letting Go The Bone: The Idea Of Indian Title In British Columbia, 1849–1927 28
10. 3. ‘Where Is the Justice, Mr Mills?’: A Case Study of R. v. Nantuck 87
11. 4. Tonto’s Due: Law, Culture, and Colonization in British Columbia 128
12. Part II: Vice, Crime, and Policing
13. 5. Swift Justice and the Decline of the Criminal Trial Jury: The Dynamics of Law and Authority in Victoria, BC, 1858–1905 171
14. 6. A Distant Edge of Authority: Capital Punishment and the Prerogative of Mercy in British Columbia, 1872–1880 204
15. 7. Vancouver Vice: The Police and the Negotiation of Morality, 1904–1935 242
16. 8. The Making of Criminal Insanity in British Columbia: Granby Farrant and the Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz, 1919–1933 274
17. Part III: Religion and Education
18. 9. Judgments of Solomon: Law, Doctrine, and the Cridge Controversy of 1872-1874 313
19. 10. Creating ‘Slaves of Satan’ or ‘New Canadians’? The Law, Education, and the Socialization of Doukhobor Children, 1911–1935 352
20. Part IV: Labour and Social Welfare
21. 11. After Union Colliery: Law, Race, And Class in the Coalmines of British Columbia 386
22. 12. For God, Country, and the Public Purse: ‘Liberal’ Politics and the Campaign for Family Courts in British Columbia, 1939–1945 423
23. Part V: The Legal Profession
24. 13. Fighting Spirits: The Yukon Legal Profession, 1898–1912 457
25. 14. Exclusionary Tactics: The History of Women and Visible Minorities in the Legal Profession in British Columbia 508
26. Index 563
27. Backmatter 585