Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Contributors xi
6. ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF CANADIAN LAW Volume XII
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 The Trials of Caroline Ferguson: Reputation and Litigation in Quebec City, 1852–1857 20
9. 2 A Cause Célèbre: Marriage, Quebec Law, and the Delpit Affair of 1901 51
10. 3 The Trials and Travails of Eliza Maria Campbell: Gender and the Law in Ontario in the 1870s 85
11. 4 Meunier v. McDougall and Secord, 1911: A Métis Woman Takes on Land Speculators and Settler Privilege in Alberta 123
12. 5 Credibility, Corroboration, and Legal Betrayal of Rape Victims 151
13. 6 The Execution of Tommasina Teolis: Capital Punishment, Gender, and Ethnicity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 173
14. 7 The War-Time Elections Act, Canadian Women’s Suffrage, and Constitutional Thought during the First World War 213
15. 8 Discipline as Deterrence: Labour Relations and the Silencing of Feminist Labour Activists 244
16. 9 Women Not Welcome: Martinie v. The Italian Society of Port Arthur 275
17. 10 Internal and External Advocacy for Legal Reform: The Genesis of the 1986 Ontario Family Law Act, 1967–1986 304
18. Index 337