Law & justice in a new land
Subtitle: essays in western Canadian legal history
By: edited by Louis A. Knafla.
Contributors: Knafla, Louis A., 1935-; Western Canadian Legal History Conference (1st : 1984 : University of Calgary)
Publisher: Carswell
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Law -- Canada, Western -- History.
Other titles: Law and justice in a new land.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Based on papers originally presented at the first Western Canadian Legal History Conference, held at the University of Calgary, April 25-27, 1984.
Table of contents: value: Canadian legal culture / Graham Parker; value: From oral to written memory / Louis A. Knafla; value: From Indian title to Aboriginal rights / Thomas Flanagan; value: The Queen's promises / Douglas Sanders; value: Indian resource rights and constitutional enactments in western Canada, 1871-1930 / N.D. Bankes; value: The struggle for the Supreme Court / Hamar Foster; value: The administration of criminal and civil justice in the mining camps and frontier communities of British Columbia / David Ricardo Williams; value: The Sproule case / W.F. Bowker; value: Male homosexuality / Terry Chapman; value: Female crime in Calgary, 1914-1941 / M. Elizabeth Langdon; value: Points of departure / Peter M. Sibenik; value: Bibliography of the legal history of western Canada / Janice Dickin McGinnis.