Beginning in 1855 Lambton County merchant, postmaster, poet, Orangeman and moderate conservative Robert McBride (1811-1895) saw himself as a victim of a conspiracy launched by scheming Reform-minded politicians and their cronies. In books of poetry, particularly his hefty Poems Sentimental & Satirical On Many Subjects Connected with Canada, and drawing on his own experiences, he outlined the malfeasance of the judiciary, the ‘land jobbing’ class, and others associated with the Reform movement in Canada West who, he claimed, were undermining and corrupting the British foundations of the province. McBride’s poetry and other contemporary documentation about his legal travails help us understand the complex connections that existed among coloni...
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John Foster McCreight is not well known in the story of British Columbia, yet he held two of the hig...
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Regionalism has been a shaping force in Canadian literary studies for as long as that field has exis...
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grantor: University of TorontoIn frontier Ontario, the system of criminal justice administ...
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This thesis seeks to explain how civil procedure legislation enacted in British Columbia in the 187...
The Saint John theatre riot of 2 April 1845 was caused by Henry W Preston's production of a lost pol...
Poetry in present day Canada begun almost simultaneously with the European colonization of those reg...
Recently discovered correspondence between two brothers in Georgeville, Lower Canada, reveals at an ...
Dept. of History, Philosophy, and Political Science. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Pap...
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Father of Confederation, was a literary as well as a political figure, being ...
Québec poet and historian François-Xavier Garneau's occasional poem "A Lord Durham" (1838) shows how...
John Foster McCreight is not well known in the story of British Columbia, yet he held two of the hig...
Law, Rhetoric and Irony is important reading for professional constitutional law teachers in Canada ...
The chapter, "Of bludgeons and ballots: political violence, municipal enfranchisement, and local gov...
This essay combines close bibliographical analysis of the 1856–66 ledger of Thomas Burrowes, Justice...
Regionalism has been a shaping force in Canadian literary studies for as long as that field has exis...
William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861) was a politician and journalist who was a strong advocate for gov...
grantor: University of TorontoIn frontier Ontario, the system of criminal justice administ...
8 pages, copie manuscriteCette lettre est également disponible dans le sixième tome de : A history o...
This thesis seeks to explain how civil procedure legislation enacted in British Columbia in the 187...
The Saint John theatre riot of 2 April 1845 was caused by Henry W Preston's production of a lost pol...
Poetry in present day Canada begun almost simultaneously with the European colonization of those reg...
Recently discovered correspondence between two brothers in Georgeville, Lower Canada, reveals at an ...
Dept. of History, Philosophy, and Political Science. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Pap...
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Father of Confederation, was a literary as well as a political figure, being ...
Québec poet and historian François-Xavier Garneau's occasional poem "A Lord Durham" (1838) shows how...