Political trials and security measures, 1840-1914edited by Barry Wright and Susan Binnie.
- Toronto [Ont. : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010).
- 1 online resource (xviii, 648 pages : illustrations)
- Canadian state trials ; v. III .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures / Part One: Fenians -- 1 'Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown': The Fenian State Trials, 1866-7 / 2 The D'Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus / Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder -- 3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864-7 / 4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841-92 / 5 Maintaining Order on the Pacific Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869-85 / 6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886-1914 / Part Three: The North-West Rebellions -- 7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874 / 8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis / 9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason / 10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials / Part Four: Securing the Dominion -- 11 'High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions': Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860-1914 / 12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892 / Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting Documents -- A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival Research / B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel's Rebellion / C. Supporting Documents. Susan Binnie and Barry Wright -- R. Blake Brown -- David A. Wilson -- Ian Ross Robertson -- Donald Fyson -- Susan Binnie -- Eric Tucker -- Louis A. Knafla -- Bob Beal and Barry Wright -- J.M. Bumsted -- Bill Waiser -- Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth -- Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright -- Judi Cumming -- Gilles Lesage --
The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change.