3 “There Seemed to Be No Recognized Law”: Canadian Law and the Prairie First Nations

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Laws and Societies in the Anglo-Canadian North-West Frontier and Prairie Provinces, 1670–1940 1
6. First Nations and First Peoples
7. Law and Necessity in Western Rupert’s Land and Beyond, 1670–1870 57
8. “There Seemed to Be No Recognized Law”: Canadian Law and the Prairie First Nations 92
9. The Exclusionary Effect of Colonial Law: Indigenous Peoples and English Law in Western Canada, 1670–1870 127
10. Discipline and Discretion in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Hudson’s Bay Company Private Justice System 150
11. Adaptations to Modernity
12. Policing Two Imperial Frontiers: The Royal Irish Constabulary and the North-West Mounted Police 185
13. The Common Law and Justices of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories: The First Generation, 1887–1907 211
14. The Implications of a Provincial Police Force in Alberta and Saskatchewan 232
15. The Development of Prairie Canada’s Water Law, 1870–1940 266
16. Monopolies and State Regulation: The Calgary Power Company, Utilities, and the Alberta Public Utilities Board, 1910–30 280
17. The Law and Public Nudity: Prairie and West Coast Reactions to the Sons of Freedom, 1929–32 309
18. Acknowledgments 323
19. Contributors 325
20. General Index 328
21. Index of Cases 341
22. Index of Ordinances, Proclamations, and Statutes 343
23. Law and Society 345