Canadian State Trials, Volume III: Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Abbreviations

Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures
Susan Binnie and Barry Wright

1 ‘Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown’: The Fenian State Trials, 1866–7
R. Blake Brown

2 The D’Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
David A. Wilson

3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864–7
Ian Ross Robertson

4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841–92
Donald Fyson

5 Maintaining Order on the Pacifi c Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869–85
Susan Binnie

6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886–1914
Eric Tucker

7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874
Louis A. Knafl A

8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis
Bob Beal And Barry Wright

9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason
J.M. Bumsted

10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials
Bill Waiser

11 ‘High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions’: Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860–1914
Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth

12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892
Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright

A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival Research
Judi Cumming

B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel’s Rebellion
Gilles Lesage

C. Supporting Documents

Index