Prairie Provinces, Social aspects 

Law and society series 

Contents:
Introduction: laws and societies in the Anglo-Canadian north-west frontier and Prairie Provinces, 1670-1940 / Louis A. Knafla -- Law and necessity in Western Rupert's Land and beyond, 1670-1870 / Hamar Foster -- "There seemed to be no recognized law": Canadian law and the Prairie First Nations / Sidney L. Haring -- The exclusionary effect of colonial law: Indigenous peoples and English law in Western Canada, 1670-1870 / Russell C. Smandych -- Discipline and discretion in the mid-eighteenth-century Hudson's Bay Company private justice system / Paul C. Nigol -- Policing two imperial frontiers: the Royal Irish Constabulary and the North-West Mounted Police / Greg Marquis -- The common law and justices of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories: the first generation, 1887-1907 / Roderick G. Martin -- The implications of provincial police force in Alberta and Saskatchewan / Zhiqiu Lin and Augustine Brannigan -- The development of prairie Canada's water law, 1870-1940 / Tristan M. Goodman -- Monopolies and state regulation: the Calgary Power Comanpany, utilities, and the Alberta Public Utilities Board, 1910-30 / Jancie Erion -- The law and public nudity: Prairie and West Coast reactions to the Sons of Freedom, 1929-32 / John McLaren. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Catalogued by editor.