W. Wesley Pue, Legal Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Spring 1997(co-edited with DeLloyd Guth)
Canada's Legal Inheritances

CONTENTS

First Nations Legal Inheritances in Canada: The Mikmaq Model
James (Sakej) Youngblood Henderson

New France: Law, Courts and the Coutume de Paris, 1608-1760
John A. Dickinson

Newfoundland's Early Laws and Legal Institutions: from Fishing admirals to the Supreme Court of Judicature in 1791-1792
Christopher English

Acadie: A la recontre de l'historie du droit avant le derangement
Jacques Vanderlinden

Maritime Legal Institutions under L'Ancient Regime, 1710-1850
D.G. Bell

Lower Canada (Quebec): Transformation of Civil Law, from Higher Morality to Autonomous Will, 1774 - 1866
Murray Greenwood

Upper Canada (Ontario): The Administration of Justice, 1784-1850
Paul Romney

Colonial Welfare Laws and Practices: Coping without an English Poor Law in Upper Canada, 1792-1837
Russell Smandych

Company Justice: Origins of Legal Institutions in Pre-Confederation Manitoba
Dale Gibson

British Columbia: Legal Institutions in the Far West, from Contact to 1871
Hamar Foster

Canada's Treaties with Aboriginal Peoples
D.N. Sprague

The North
Graham Price

The Maritime Provices, 1850-1939: Lawyers and Legal Institutions
Philip Girard

The Married Woman in Ascendance, the Mother Country in Retreat: from Legal Colonialism to Legal Nationalism in Quebec Matrimonial Law Reform, 1866-1991
Jean-Maurice Brisson and Nicholas Kasirer

Development of Federal Legal and Judicial Institutions in Canada
Dale Gibson

The Scholars and the Constitution: P.O.G.G. and the Privy Council
Richard Risk

Recalculating the Wages of Sin: The Social and Legal Construction of Prostitution, 1850-1920
John McLaren

The Shining Sixpence: Women's Worth in Canadian Law at the End of the Victorian Era
Constance Backhouse

Labour and the Liberal State: Regulating the Employment Relationship, 1867-1920
Margaret McCallum

The Lottery of Death: Capital Punishment, 1867-1976
Carolyn Strange

From Empire Ontario to California North: Law and Legal Institutions in Twentieth-Century Ontario
Jamie Benidickson

Common Law Legal Education in Canada's Age of Light, Soap and Water
W. Wesley Pue