This article traces the evolution of coroners’ manuals as published in nineteenth-century Canada West and Ontario. Rather than study the individual men who investigated suspicious deaths and then held inquests, it examines the coroner as an imagined and ideal type. The first three editions of A Practical Treatise on the office and duties of Coroners, embody not just formal rules and practical advice on doing the job, but the hopes and aspirations of their acknowledged author, William Fuller Alves Boys, and his ghostwriter the respected jurist James Robert Gowan. The article examines trends and changes in the three editions of the manual as both Boys’ career and the government in Ontario develop. Boys’ story, reflected in the evolving manual...
This article describes and explains the first Canadian medical malpractice crisis. While malpractice...
The coroner service is one of the oldest public services in existence with the earliest references g...
This dissertation analyses the development of the Ontario bar during the late nineteenth century and...
This study explores, analyses and seeks to explain the processes by which legislative changes were a...
Au Québec, rares sont les travaux qui offrent un portrait exhaustif des décès portés à l’attention d...
The nineteenth century was a period of reform and transition for the office of coroner. Despite its ...
Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation shows how the Office of the Chief ...
Ph. D. Thesis.In this thesis I examine the life and work of the Victorian coroner for Newcastle upon...
Outline of PhD Research.The focus is John Theodore Hoyle. The dates for the working title of the ...
For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England’s legal and political landscape, best...
Les archives historiques des coroners, qui agissaient comme des rouages dans l’administration de la ...
This paper examines nineteenth-century body snatching in Kingston, Ontario, focusing on the roles of...
Although some legal commentators bemoaned the trend, suicide was increasingly interpreted by ninetee...
The role of the Coroner in child protection is examined from the creation of the office in Medieval...
The homes of the urban working class and rural laborers were the most hazardous dwellings of the Vic...
This article describes and explains the first Canadian medical malpractice crisis. While malpractice...
The coroner service is one of the oldest public services in existence with the earliest references g...
This dissertation analyses the development of the Ontario bar during the late nineteenth century and...
This study explores, analyses and seeks to explain the processes by which legislative changes were a...
Au Québec, rares sont les travaux qui offrent un portrait exhaustif des décès portés à l’attention d...
The nineteenth century was a period of reform and transition for the office of coroner. Despite its ...
Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation shows how the Office of the Chief ...
Ph. D. Thesis.In this thesis I examine the life and work of the Victorian coroner for Newcastle upon...
Outline of PhD Research.The focus is John Theodore Hoyle. The dates for the working title of the ...
For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England’s legal and political landscape, best...
Les archives historiques des coroners, qui agissaient comme des rouages dans l’administration de la ...
This paper examines nineteenth-century body snatching in Kingston, Ontario, focusing on the roles of...
Although some legal commentators bemoaned the trend, suicide was increasingly interpreted by ninetee...
The role of the Coroner in child protection is examined from the creation of the office in Medieval...
The homes of the urban working class and rural laborers were the most hazardous dwellings of the Vic...
This article describes and explains the first Canadian medical malpractice crisis. While malpractice...
The coroner service is one of the oldest public services in existence with the earliest references g...
This dissertation analyses the development of the Ontario bar during the late nineteenth century and...