Foreword: A Student's Take on Canada's Legal Pasts
Nick Austin
Introduction: Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Ted McCoy, Lyndsay Campbell, Mélanie Méthot
Part I: Illuminating Cases
Family Defamation in Quebec: The View from the Archives
Eric H. Reiter
Writing Penitentiary History
Ted McCoy
Analyzing Bigamy Cases without Archival Records: It Is Possible
Mélanie Méthot
Trial Pamphlets and Newspaper Accounts
Lyndsay Campbell
The Last Voyage of the Frederick Gerring, Jr
Christopher Shorey
The Textbook Edition of Kent's Commentaries Used in the Gerring
Angela Fernandez
Part II: Exploring Systems
Empire's Law: Archives and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Catharine MacMillan
Practising Law in the "Lawyerless" Colony of New France
Alexandra Havrylyshyn
Poursuivre son mari en justice au Bas-Canada: femmes mariées et coutume de Paris devant la cour du Banc du roi (1795-1830)
Jean-Philippe Garneau
Getting Their Man: The NWMP as Accused in the Territorial Criminal Court in the Canadian North-West, 1876-1905
Shelley A.M. Gavigan
Part III: Writing Legal History: Past, Present and Future
Sex Discrimination in Law: From Equal Citizenship to Human Rights Law
Dominique Clément
Legal-Historical Writing for the Canadian Prairies: Past, Present, Future
Louis A. Knafla
Primary source bibliography
Secondary source bibliography
Contributors
Index