Author: Roy H. EngfieldPublisher: Resources Survey Division, National Library of Canada
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Collections of Official Publications in Canada
Author: Roy H. EngfieldPublisher: Resources Survey Division, National Library of Canada
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Canadian Government Publications
Author: Canada. Information CanadaPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
The Canada Year Book
Author: Magistrates, Police, and People
Author: Donald FysonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487597347
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception. Many historians have suggested that, between the Conquest and the Rebellions (1760s-1830s), Quebec's 'Canadien' inhabitants both boycotted and were excluded from the British criminal justice system. Magistrates, Police, and People challenges this simplistic view of the relationship between criminal law and Quebec society, offering instead a fresh view of a complex accord. Based on extensive research in judicial and official sources, Donald Fyson offers the first comprehensive study of the everyday workings of criminal justice in Quebec and Lower Canada. Focussing on the justices of the peace and their police, Fyson examines both the criminal justice system itself, and the system in operation as experienced by those who participated in it. Fyson contends that, although the system was fundamentally biased, its flexibility provided a source of power for ordinary citizens. At the same time, everyday criminal justice offered the colonial state and colonial elites a powerful, though often faulty, means of imposing their will on Quebec society. This fascinating and controversial study will challenge many received historical interpretations, providing new insight into the criminal justice system of early Quebec.
Collections de Recherche Des Bibliothèques Canadiennes
Author: Quebec: the Revolutionary Age, 1760-1791
Author: Hilda NeatbyPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The French Canadians; 1760-1967: 1760-1911
Author: Mason WadeCatalogue of Official Publications of the Parliament and Government of Canada
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Entangling the Quebec Act
Author: Ollivier HubertPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228004632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the "textbook narrative" - in several different national histories, the Quebec Act remains underexamined in all of them. The first sustained examination of the act in nearly thirty years, Entangling the Quebec Act brings together essays by historians from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. Focusing on a singular occurrence that had major social, legal, revolutionary, and imperial repercussions, the book weaves together perspectives from spatially and conceptually distinct historical fields - legal and cultural, political and religious, and beyond. Collectively, the contributors resituate the Quebec Act in light of Atlantic, American, Canadian, Indigenous, and British Imperial historiographies. A transnational collaboration, Entangling the Quebec Act shows how the interconnectedness of national histories is visible at a single crossing point, illustrating the importance of intertwining methodologies to bring these connections into focus.
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