Elizabeth Mancke is Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.Jerry Bannister teaches History and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University.Denis McKim teaches in the History Department at Douglas College.Scott W. See is Libra Professor Emeritus and former chair of the University of Maine’s History Department.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsMapsIntroductionElizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. SeeSection I: Loyalty, Liberty, and Visions of Order1. Aspirations and Limitations: "Peace, Order, and Good Government" and the Language of Violence and Disorder in British North AmericaScott W. See 2. Loyalty, Order, and Quebec’s Catholic Hierarchy, 1763–1867D.C. Bélanger 3. Anxious Anglicans, Complicated Catholics, and Disruptive Dissenters: Christianity and the Search for Social Order in the Age of RevolutionDenis McKim 4. Liberty, Loyalty, and Sentiment in Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864–1873Jerry Bannister Section II: From Tory Imperialism to Liberal Settler Colonialism 5. Revolution Expected: The Invasion of Quebec and American IndependenceJeffers Lennox 6. Empire, Settler Colonialism, and the Role of Violence in Indigenous Dispossession in British North America, 1749–1830John G. Reid 7. Space, Race, and Violence: The Beginnings of Civilization in CanadaE.A. Heaman 8. Worthy and Industrious or a Burden? Managing Migration in Upper Canada, 1815–1845Section III: Resisting Dispossession9. Searching for Order in a Settlers’ World: Wendat and Mississauga Schooling, Politics and Networks at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyThomas Peace 10. Runaway Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary StudyHarvey Amani Whitfield 11. The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century PlainsÉmilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny 12. "We are men not Buffalos": Louis Riel and the Gendering of the Red River Public SphereM. Max Hamon Section IV: Legitimating and Contesting the Public Sphere 13. Discontents and Dissidents: Unrest amongst Loyalist Freemasons in the 1780s and 90sBonnie Huskins 14. Of Bludgeons and Ballots: Political Violence, Municipal Enfranchisement, and Local Governance in Mid-Nineteenth- Century MontrealColin Grittner 15. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder in a Mid-Victorian CityIan Radforth 16. "To muse within these peaceful portals": Urban Space, Public Order, and the Makings of Montreal’s Viger Square, 1818–1870Dan HornerSection V: Tools of Social Order: The Law and the Press17. The Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759–1872Donald Fyson 18. Making a Patriot Order: Violence, Respectability, and the Patriot Press in Exile, 1838–1847Stephen R.I. Smith 19. The Ambivalence of Order: Jurisdiction in the Disputed NortheastBradley Miller 20. For the Better Administration of the Town’s Affairs: Civic Engagement, Local Governance, and Grassroots Activism in Canada West/Ontario, 1849–1870Darren Ferry 21. The Role of Newspapers in Halifax during the Confederate and the Repeal Movements, 1865–69Mathias Rodorff EpilogueElizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See

"There is much of value in some of these essays for the social and constitutional historian." - Graham A. MacDonald (Prairie History) "This book will be a strong addition to the collection of any historian of Canada, and its efforts to be inclusive of English, French, Black, and Indigenous histories in the same volume to tell a fully Canadian story should be commended."- Ruth L. Almy, Temple University (Canadian Journal of History )

Elizabeth Mancke is Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.Jerry Bannister teaches History and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University.Denis McKim teaches in the History Department at Douglas College.Scott W. See is Libra Professor Emeritus and former chair of the University of Maine’s History Department.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsMapsIntroductionElizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. SeeSection I: Loyalty, Liberty, and Visions of Order1. Aspirations and Limitations: "Peace, Order, and Good Government" and the Language of Violence and Disorder in British North AmericaScott W. See 2. Loyalty, Order, and Quebec’s Catholic Hierarchy, 1763–1867D.C. Bélanger 3. Anxious Anglicans, Complicated Catholics, and Disruptive Dissenters: Christianity and the Search for Social Order in the Age of RevolutionDenis McKim 4. Liberty, Loyalty, and Sentiment in Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864–1873Jerry Bannister Section II: From Tory Imperialism to Liberal Settler Colonialism 5. Revolution Expected: The Invasion of Quebec and American IndependenceJeffers Lennox 6. Empire, Settler Colonialism, and the Role of Violence in Indigenous Dispossession in British North America, 1749–1830John G. Reid 7. Space, Race, and Violence: The Beginnings of Civilization in CanadaE.A. Heaman 8. Worthy and Industrious or a Burden? Managing Migration in Upper Canada, 1815–1845Section III: Resisting Dispossession9. Searching for Order in a Settlers’ World: Wendat and Mississauga Schooling, Politics and Networks at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyThomas Peace 10. Runaway Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary StudyHarvey Amani Whitfield 11. The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century PlainsÉmilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny 12. "We are men not Buffalos": Louis Riel and the Gendering of the Red River Public SphereM. Max Hamon Section IV: Legitimating and Contesting the Public Sphere 13. Discontents and Dissidents: Unrest amongst Loyalist Freemasons in the 1780s and 90sBonnie Huskins 14. Of Bludgeons and Ballots: Political Violence, Municipal Enfranchisement, and Local Governance in Mid-Nineteenth- Century MontrealColin Grittner 15. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder in a Mid-Victorian CityIan Radforth 16. "To muse within these peaceful portals": Urban Space, Public Order, and the Makings of Montreal’s Viger Square, 1818–1870Dan HornerSection V: Tools of Social Order: The Law and the Press17. The Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759–1872Donald Fyson 18. Making a Patriot Order: Violence, Respectability, and the Patriot Press in Exile, 1838–1847Stephen R.I. Smith 19. The Ambivalence of Order: Jurisdiction in the Disputed NortheastBradley Miller 20. For the Better Administration of the Town’s Affairs: Civic Engagement, Local Governance, and Grassroots Activism in Canada West/Ontario, 1849–1870Darren Ferry 21. The Role of Newspapers in Halifax during the Confederate and the Repeal Movements, 1865–69Mathias Rodorff EpilogueElizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See

"There is much of value in some of these essays for the social and constitutional historian." - Graham A. MacDonald (Prairie History) "This book will be a strong addition to the collection of any historian of Canada, and its efforts to be inclusive of English, French, Black, and Indigenous histories in the same volume to tell a fully Canadian story should be commended."- Ruth L. Almy, Temple University (Canadian Journal of History )

Elizabeth Mancke is Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.Jerry Bannister teaches History and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University.Denis McKim teaches in the History Department at Douglas College.Scott W. See is Libra Professor Emeritus and former chair of the University of Maine’s History Department.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsMapsIntroductionElizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. SeeSection I: Loyalty, Liberty, and Visions of Order1. Aspirations and Limitations: "Peace, Order, and Good Government" and the Language of Violence and Disorder in British North AmericaScott W. See 2. Loyalty, Order, and Quebec’s Catholic Hierarchy, 1763–1867D.C. Bélanger 3. Anxious Anglicans, Complicated Catholics, and Disruptive Dissenters: Christianity and the Search for Social Order in the Age of RevolutionDenis McKim 4. Liberty, Loyalty, and Sentiment in Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864–1873Jerry Bannister Section II: From Tory Imperialism to Liberal Settler Colonialism 5. Revolution Expected: The Invasion of Quebec and American IndependenceJeffers Lennox 6. Empire, Settler Colonialism, and the Role of Violence in Indigenous Dispossession in British North America, 1749–1830John G. Reid 7. Space, Race, and Violence: The Beginnings of Civilization in CanadaE.A. Heaman 8. Worthy and Industrious or a Burden? Managing Migration in Upper Canada, 1815–1845Section III: Resisting Dispossession9. Searching for Order in a Settlers’ World: Wendat and Mississauga Schooling, Politics and Networks at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyThomas Peace 10. Runaway Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary StudyHarvey Amani Whitfield 11. The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century PlainsÉmilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny 12. "We are men not Buffalos": Louis Riel and the Gendering of the Red River Public SphereM. Max Hamon Section IV: Legitimating and Contesting the Public Sphere 13. Discontents and Dissidents: Unrest amongst Loyalist Freemasons in the 1780s and 90sBonnie Huskins 14. Of Bludgeons and Ballots: Political Violence, Municipal Enfranchisement, and Local Governance in Mid-Nineteenth- Century MontrealColin Grittner 15. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder in a Mid-Victorian CityIan Radforth 16. "To muse within these peaceful portals": Urban Space, Public Order, and the Makings of Montreal’s Viger Square, 1818–1870Dan HornerSection V: Tools of Social Order: The Law and the Press17. The Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759–1872Donald Fyson 18. Making a Patriot Order: Violence, Respectability, and the Patriot Press in Exile, 1838–1847Stephen R.I. Smith 19. The Ambivalence of Order: Jurisdiction in the Disputed NortheastBradley Miller 20. For the Better Administration of the Town’s Affairs: Civic Engagement, Local Governance, and Grassroots Activism in Canada West/Ontario, 1849–1870Darren Ferry 21. The Role of Newspapers in Halifax during the Confederate and the Repeal Movements, 1865–69Mathias Rodorff EpilogueElizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See

"There is much of value in some of these essays for the social and constitutional historian." - Graham A. MacDonald (Prairie History) "This book will be a strong addition to the collection of any historian of Canada, and its efforts to be inclusive of English, French, Black, and Indigenous histories in the same volume to tell a fully Canadian story should be commended."- Ruth L. Almy, Temple University (Canadian Journal of History )