Law for the elephant, law for the beaver : essays in the legal history of the North American West

Law for the elephant, law for the beaver : essays in the legal history of the North American West

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Edition Details

• Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Hamar Foster, John McLaren, Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, University of Regina., Chet Orloff
• Language: English
• Jurisdiction(s): Saskatchewan
• Publication Information: Regina, Sask. : Canadian Plains Research Center ; Pasadena, Calif. : Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, 1992
• Publication Type (Medium): Conference papers and proceedings, History, Congresses
• Material: Conference publication
• Type: Book
• Series title: Canadian plains proceedings, 23.
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/law-for-the-elephant-law-for-the-beaver-essays-in-the-legal-history-of-the-north-american-west/ (Stable identifier)

Additional Format

Online version: Law for the elephant, law for the beaver. Regina, Sask.: Canadian Plains Research Center ; Pasadena, Calif.: Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, 1992 (OCoLC)891781310

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IX, 322 pages : ILlustrations ; 23 cm.

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Bibliographic information

• Publishers: Canadian Plains Research Center ; Pasadena, Calif.Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society
• Responsable Person: edited by John McLaren, Hamar Foster, and Chet Orloff.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Country/State: Saskatchewan
• Number of Editions: 6 editions
• First edition Date: 1992
• Last edition Date: 1992
• General Notes: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Victoria, Feb. 22-24, 1991.
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KE394
• Dewey Code: 349.712
• ISBN: 0889770727 9780889770720
• OCLC: 26807349

Main Contents

Preface / John McLaren
Law for the elephant, law for the beaver: tracking the beasts / Hamar Foster and John McLaren
The layers of western legal history / John Phillip Reid
Law and order on the American frontier: the western civil war of incorporation / Richard Maxwell Brown
Law and order on the Western-Canadian frontier / R.C. Macleod
Aboriginal rights and the Canadian legal system: the west coast anomaly / Paul Tennant
Tee-Hit-Ton and Alaska native rights / Stephen Haycox
Killing Mr. John: law and jurisdiction at Fort Stikine, 1842-1846 / Hamar Foster
Controlling the army of occupation: law enforcement and the morthwest defense projects, 1942-1946 / Kenneth S. Coates and William R. Morrison
Anti-Chinese VIolence in the American west, 1850-1910 / John R. Wunder
The early British Columbia judges, the rule of law and the “Chinese question”: the California and Oregon connection / John McLaren
Water law of the Canadian west: influences from the western states / David R. Percy
Constitution making in the nineteenth-century American west / Christian G. Fritz.

Structured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada, Western
• Canada–Canadian Northwest
• United States, West

Unstructured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada, Western
• Canada–Canadian Northwest
• United States, West

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