Canada's Legal Pasts
Looking Foreward, Looking Back
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Canada’s Legal Pasts explores new topics in Canada’s fascinating legal history and presents practical approaches to historical scholarship on the workings of law and legality. Drawing on real-world examples and spanning centuries, this book illuminates the vibrant evolution of Canada’s legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources—including provincial archives, newspaper records, and penitentiary records—show many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This book is essential for anyone who wishes to learn about Canada’s legal past—and why we study it.