Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Section I: Loyalty, Liberty, and Visions of Order
7. 1. Aspirations and Limitations: “Peace, Order, and Good Government” and the Language of Violence and Disorder in British North America 15
8. 2. Loyalty, Order, and Quebec’s Catholic Hierarchy, 1763–1867 36
9. 3. Anxious Anglicans, Complicated Catholics, and Disruptive Dissenters: Christianity and the Search for Social Order in the Age of Revolution 53
10. 4. Liberty, Loyalty, and Sentiment in Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864–1873 78
11. Section II: From Tory Imperialism to Liberal Settler Colonialism
12. 5. Revolution Expected: The Invasion of Quebec and American Independence 93
13. 6. Empire, Settler Colonialism, and the Role of Violence in Indigenous Dispossession in British North America, 1749–1830 117
14. 7. Space, Race, and Violence: The Beginnings of “Civilization” in Canada 135
15. 8. Worthy and Industrious or a Burden? Managing Migration in Upper Canada, 1815–1845 159
16. Section III: Resisting Dispossession
17. 9. Searching for Order in a Settlers’ World: Wendat and Mississauga Schooling, Politics, and Networks at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century 183
18. 10. Runaway Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary Study 214
19. 11. The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century Plains 236
20. 12. “Recognize Us as a People and Not as Buffaloes”: Louis Riel and the Gendering of the Red River Public Sphere 264
21. Section IV: Legitimating and Contesting the Public Sphere
22. 13. Discontents and Dissidents: Unrest among Loyalist Freemasons in the 1780s and 1790s 289
23. 14. Of Bludgeons and Ballots: Political Violence, Municipal Enfranchisement, and Local Governance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal 312
24. 15. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder in Mid-Victorian Toronto 336
25. 16. “To Muse within These Peaceful Portals”: Urban Space, Public Order, and the Makings of Montreal’s Viger Square, 1818–1870 359
26. Section V: Tools of Social Order: The Law and the Press
27. 17. The Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759–1872 381
28. 18. Making a Patriot Order: Violence, Respectability, and the Patriot Press in Exile, 1838–1847 408
29. 19. The Ambivalence of Order: Jurisdiction in the Disputed Northeast 431
30. 20. For the Better Administration of the Town’s Affairs: Civic Engagement, Local Governance, and Grass-Roots Activism in Canada West / Ontario, 1849–1870 448
31. 21. The Role of Halifax Newspapers during the Confederate and the Repeal Movements, 1865–1869 467
32. Epilogue 487
33. Notes on Contributors 491
34. Index 497