Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue: Louis Knafla and Canadian Legal History vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The King, the People, the Law … and the Constitution: Justice Robert Thorpe and the Roots of Irish Whig Ideology in Early Upper Canada 11
6. William Augustus Miles (1796–1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia 25
7. Macleod at Law: A Judicial Biography of James Farquharson Macleod, 1874–94 37
8. “Don’t You Bully Me … Justice I Want If There Is Justice to Be Had”: The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907 60
9. Murdered Women and Mythic Villains: The Criminal Case and the Imaginary Criminal in the Canadian West, 1886–1930 95
10. Boomtown Brothels in the Kootenays, 1895–1905 120
11. “Imagine That! A Lady Going to an Office!”: Janet Kathleen Gilley 153
12. Incarcerating Holiness: Religious Enthusiasm and the Law in Oregon, 1904 170
13. Police Culture in British Columbia and “Ordinary Duty” in the Peace River Country, 1910–39 198
14. Contributors 225
15. Index 227