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Courted and Abandoned
Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada ? breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of marriage, and criminal conversation.
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Border Cities powerhouse : the rise of Windsor : 1900-1945
\"In the early 1900s, a series of small communities with modest industries was transformed, into a large, rapidly expanding industrial centre. By the end of the 1920s, the Border Cities had emerged as the eighth largest urban conglomeration in Canada, home to the nation's fourth largest industrial complex. The story of Windsor's emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict. As one of the first truly multicultural areas of Canada, the Border Cities showed all of the stress of integrating religious and ethnic groups into one community. Tracing the region's development through prohibition, the Great Depression, and the military expansion of World War 2, the era reaches its climax during the infamous Ford Factory Strike of 1945, when communist-led autoworkers faced off against corporate management-as well as provincial and federal police. Following the success of The River & the Land: A History of Windsor to 1900, this second book in Patrick Brode's comprehensive, three-volume history of the Border Cities region captures an age of explosive growth and political struggle.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sir John Beverley Robinson
John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.
The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its devotion to the Crown, with little room for dissent. As a true loyalist son, educated by John Strachan, Robinson attempted to steer Upper Canada toward emulation of what he perceived to be Britain’s ideal aristocratic society.
As a young ensign in the York militia, he defended his sovereign at Queenston Heights, and as acting attorney-general he prosecuted traitors who threatened to undermine the colony. Later, as attorney-general and de facto leader of the assembly during the 1820s, he tried to mould the government to the British form. But factors he never understood—the influence of American democracy and liberalism in the Colonial Office—ensured that Upper Canada would never be a ‘new Albion.’
Robinson was appointed chief justice in 1829, and his judicial career spanned thirty-three years, during which he insisted the courts were subservient to the legislature and established precedents declaring their role should be limited to the enforcement of existing laws, with no independent creative function. His long service on the bench represented both a preservation and a strengthening of the British tradition in Canadian law.
In this biography, early Toronto comes alive through the eyes of a powerful man—firm in his beliefs, attractive to women, respected by his fellows—who sought to mould society to his own ideals. For historians, lawyers, and students of jurisprudence who seek an understanding of the roots of legal practice in nineteenth-century Ontario, it is essential reading.
Electronic Format Disclaimer: Image of The Three Robinson Sisters (Emily, Augusta, and Louisa) by George Theodore Berthon, 1846 on page XV removed at the request of the rights holder.
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Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments
Patrick Brode has produced a fascinating study of government hesistancy surrounding war crime prosecutions inCasual Slaughters and Accidental Judgements, a history of Canada's prosecution of war crimes committed during the Second World War.
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The Odyssey of John Anderson
In 1860 the American government made a formal request for the extradition of a fugitive slave, John Anderson of Brantford, Canada West. At first glance the request was routine. But the legal, political, and diplomatic controversy that arose from this hearing threatened to topple a Canadian government, and aroused animostities between Britons and Americans.
Patrick Brode explores the legal and political implications of the Anderson case and reveals something of the man at the centre of it all. John Anderson was an ordinary man caught in extraordinary circumstances. For a few moths he was a public figure, a personification of the struggle against slavery. Not long after the hearing he dropped from public view, adding a final, unsolved mystery to this intriguing case.
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