Barry Wright is a professor emeritus of law and history at Carleton University. Susan Binnie is an independent scholar living in Toronto.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations Introduction: From State Trials to National Security MeasuresSusan Binnie and Barry Wright Part One: Fenians1 ‘Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown’: The Fenian State Trials, 1866–7R. Blake Brown2 The D’Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas CorpusDavid A. Wilson Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864–7Ian Ross Robertson4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841–92Donald Fyson5 Maintaining Order on the Pacifi c Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869–85Susan Binnie6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886–1914Eric Tucker Part Three: The North-West Rebellions7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874Louis A. Knafl A8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 CrisisBob Beal And Barry Wright9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for TreasonJ.M. Bumsted10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian TrialsBill Waiser Part Four: Securing the Dominion11 ‘High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions’: Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860–1914Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting DocumentsA. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival ResearchJudi CummingB. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel’s RebellionGilles LesageC. Supporting DocumentsIndex

This book offers a fascinating window onto a broader legal and political culture in the process of being forged in the decades before and after Confederation. - Robert Diab, Canadian Journal of Law & Society, vol 25:02:10 ‘Binnie & Wright have produced a book that provides much needed background to the current situation in Canada, and one that will prove to be an excellent resource for scholars of modern legal responses to security threats… This volume highlights the importance of this series to our understanding of both Canadian legal history and the development of the Canadian state.’ - Sarah E. Hamil (Labour/Le Travail vol 66: Fall 2010)

Barry Wright is a professor emeritus of law and history at Carleton University. Susan Binnie is an independent scholar living in Toronto.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations Introduction: From State Trials to National Security MeasuresSusan Binnie and Barry Wright Part One: Fenians1 ‘Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown’: The Fenian State Trials, 1866–7R. Blake Brown2 The D’Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas CorpusDavid A. Wilson Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864–7Ian Ross Robertson4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841–92Donald Fyson5 Maintaining Order on the Pacifi c Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869–85Susan Binnie6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886–1914Eric Tucker Part Three: The North-West Rebellions7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874Louis A. Knafl A8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 CrisisBob Beal And Barry Wright9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for TreasonJ.M. Bumsted10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian TrialsBill Waiser Part Four: Securing the Dominion11 ‘High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions’: Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860–1914Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting DocumentsA. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival ResearchJudi CummingB. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel’s RebellionGilles LesageC. Supporting DocumentsIndex

This book offers a fascinating window onto a broader legal and political culture in the process of being forged in the decades before and after Confederation. - Robert Diab, Canadian Journal of Law & Society, vol 25:02:10 ‘Binnie & Wright have produced a book that provides much needed background to the current situation in Canada, and one that will prove to be an excellent resource for scholars of modern legal responses to security threats… This volume highlights the importance of this series to our understanding of both Canadian legal history and the development of the Canadian state.’ - Sarah E. Hamil (Labour/Le Travail vol 66: Fall 2010)

Barry Wright is a professor emeritus of law and history at Carleton University. Susan Binnie is an independent scholar living in Toronto.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations Introduction: From State Trials to National Security MeasuresSusan Binnie and Barry Wright Part One: Fenians1 ‘Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown’: The Fenian State Trials, 1866–7R. Blake Brown2 The D’Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas CorpusDavid A. Wilson Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864–7Ian Ross Robertson4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841–92Donald Fyson5 Maintaining Order on the Pacifi c Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869–85Susan Binnie6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886–1914Eric Tucker Part Three: The North-West Rebellions7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874Louis A. Knafl A8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 CrisisBob Beal And Barry Wright9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for TreasonJ.M. Bumsted10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian TrialsBill Waiser Part Four: Securing the Dominion11 ‘High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions’: Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860–1914Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting DocumentsA. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival ResearchJudi CummingB. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel’s RebellionGilles LesageC. Supporting DocumentsIndex

This book offers a fascinating window onto a broader legal and political culture in the process of being forged in the decades before and after Confederation. - Robert Diab, Canadian Journal of Law & Society, vol 25:02:10 ‘Binnie & Wright have produced a book that provides much needed background to the current situation in Canada, and one that will prove to be an excellent resource for scholars of modern legal responses to security threats… This volume highlights the importance of this series to our understanding of both Canadian legal history and the development of the Canadian state.’ - Sarah E. Hamil (Labour/Le Travail vol 66: Fall 2010)