xv, 379 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Law and justice in a new land
Notes:
Based on papers originally presented at the first Western Canadian Legal History Conference, held at the University of Calgary, April 25-27, 1984 Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents:
Canadian legal culture / Graham Parker From oral to written memory / Louis A. Knafla From Indian title to Aboriginal rights / Thomas Flanagan The Queen's promises / Douglas Sanders Indian resource rights and constitutional enactments in western Canada, 1871-1930 / N.D. Bankes The struggle for the Supreme Court / Hamar Foster The administration of criminal and civil justice in the mining camps and frontier communities of British Columbia / David Ricardo Williams The Sproule case / W.F. Bowker Male homosexuality / Terry Chapman Female crime in Calgary, 1914-1941 / M. Elizabeth Langdon Points of departure / Peter M. Sibenik Bibliography of the legal history of western Canada / Janice Dickin McGinnis
