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Canadian State Trials, Volume III
Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914
Barry Wright (Edited by), Susan Binnie (Edited by)
9781487526016
Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2020
672 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm, 0.84 kg
This book offers a fascinating window onto a broader legal and political culture in the process of being forged in the decades before and after Confederation. - Robert Diab, Canadian Journal of Law & Society, vol 25:02:10 ‘Binnie & Wright have produced a book that provides much needed background to the current situation in Canada, and one that will prove to be an excellent resource for scholars of modern legal responses to security threats… This volume highlights the importance of this series to our understanding of both Canadian legal history and the development of the Canadian state.’ - Sarah E. Hamil (Labour/Le Travail vol 66: Fall 2010)
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. Trials for treason and related political offences, suspensions of habeas corpus, and other public order and security-related measures, supported by new institutions such as secret policing, are studied in essays by leading scholars in the field. The book is divided into four parts: trials and related proceedings arising from the Fenian invasions; attempts to regulate large-scale manifestations of public disorder; trials following the North-West Rebellions of 1870 and 1885, including the Riel trial; and the modernization and enforcement of Canada's national security laws. Building upon the established scholarship of the series, the essays place these legal responses in context, shedding light on the complex and changing relationship between law and politics in Canadian history.
Foreword 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 Pacifi c 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 Index
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Abbreviations
Susan Binnie and Barry Wright
R. Blake Brown
David A. Wilson
Ian Ross Robertson
Donald Fyson
Susan Binnie
Eric Tucker
Louis A. Knafl A
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