Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Contributors xv
6. 1. Writing Canadian Legal History: An Introduction 1
7. 2. Hudson's Bay Company Law: Adam Thorn and the Institution of Order in Rupert's Land 1839-54 43
8. 3. The Law and the Economy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario: A Perspective 88
9. 4. William Hume Blake and the Judicature Acts of 1849: The Process of Legal Reform at Mid-Century in Upper Canada 132
10. 5. The Law of Master and Servant in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario 175
11. 6. Shifting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Custody Law 212
12. 7. The Origins of the Canadian Criminal Code 249
13. 8. Judicial Conservatism in an Age of Innovation: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian Nuisance Law 1880-1930 281
14. 9. Quebec's Legal Elite Looks at Women's Rights: The Dorion Commission 1929-31 323
15. 10. An Annotated Bibliography of Statutes and Related Publications: Upper Canada, the Province of Canada, and Ontario 1792-1980 358
16. Table of Cases 405
17. Index 408