A history of law in Canada, volume two: law for the new dominion, 1867-1914

• 1 Introduction

PART ONE: THE LAW AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS

• 2 The Constitution: confederation, The British North America Act, and Post-1867 developments
• 3 Creating the dominion court system
• 4 Sources of law: statutes, codes, and case law
• 5 Quebec civil law: a mixed legal system in confederation
• 6 The legal professions, legal education, and legal literature

PART TWO: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE NEW DOMINION

• 7 Canadian law and Indigenous Peoples I: The Metis, the numbered treaties, British Columbia, and the Rebellion
• 8 Canadian law and Indigenous Peoples II: The Indian Act, the reserve system, and assimilation
• 9 Canadian law and Indigenous Peoples III: education and assimilation: the origins and expansion of residential schools
• 10 Indigenous law and European law: adaptation, resistance, avoidance

PART THREE: bUILDING THE NEW DOMINION: CAPITAL, LABOUR, AND A CRIMINAL CODE

• 11 Law and economy: corporate and commercial law and regulation
• 12 Labour and employment law
• 13 Criminal justice: criminal law, criminal procedure, and punishment
• 14 Property law 

PART FOUR: LESS FAVOURED BY LAW: WOMEN AND MINORITIES

• 15 Women, the family, and the law
• 16 Minorities and civil rights
   
• Postscript: law and legal institutions on the eve of the Great War
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Illustration Credits
• Statutory and Proclamation Index
• Name Index
• Topical Index