Law needs a body of people to promote order. In the case of Canada, those first people took stake tens of thousands of years ago.
The Quebec Act, 1774; l'acte de Quebec 1774.THE formal legal CITATION OF THE 1774 Quebec Act is: 14 George III, c. 83 (U.K.) An Act for making more e...
Francis ReginaldScott was born in Quebec City " His father was a doctor and F.R. Scott ia described by his biographers an anglophone".
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The definitive non-partisan ranking of Canada's prime-ministers since Confederation (1867).
The very good, the good, the bad and the ugly in this permanent list of the greatest and bad lawyers and likewise, re judges, in the history of Canada.
The vital stats on this phenomenal Quebec jurist are that she was born at Montreal, Quebec on July 10, 1896, and passed-away on November 3, 1981.
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Francis ReginaldScott was born in Quebec City " His father was a doctor and F.R. Scott ia described by his biographersERSas an anglophone".Frank Scott...
Quieten Down Baby
A Solicitor General's Resignation
"I'll Kick His Ass" Said the 137 pound Prime Minister
A succinct what you need to know biography of the controversial former premier of the province of Quebec, Canada, Maurice Duplessis.
Edit content hAn influx of New Englanders urged on Nova Scotians to ask and to establish their own law-making legislature, which gathered for the firs...
A European (French) ship captain drops anchorall near Gaspé, raises a cross and claims itfor the King of France.
Biography of Marc Lescarbot: French lawyer and New World explorer.
Newfoundland's first English governor, John Guy, established the first law, which attempted to regulate the fishing industry and control the deforesta...
An investment opportunity for 100 French aristocrats grounds the jurisdiction of France in North America and in the introduction of French law to the continent.
In 1628, King Louis the 13th of France approved a new company called Company of the Hundred Associates. The Company was given the right to settle all ...
There wasn't a trial. This was war - Iroquois v Huron War and the former were out to exterminate the latter. One Jesuit missionary got caught by he Iroquois in a Huron pow-wow and was then treated as a P.O.W. though the words "treated" and even "prisoner" hardly do justice to the barbaric and senseless abuse the First Nations subjected Jean Brebeuf to.
In August 1858, the British government declared Vancouver Island a colony and appointed Sir James Douglas as its first governor. Matthew Begbie was se...
EdThe Royal Charter of the Company included law-making powers for the territory then known as "Rupert's Land." The 7,000-word charter was granted to a...
ETo protest her slavery and pending sale, a black slave burnt down her master's house in Montreal. Unfortunately for Marie-Joseph-Angelique, the fire ...
Inspired by victory at Quebec at the famous Plains of Abraham battle on September 13, 1759, the English promised the captive French inhabitants "mild ...
What was England thinking when, in 1763, it tried to impose English common law on the proud and recently defeated French population of Quebec?
Judge Thomas Walker was attacked in his home on December 6, 1764 by men disguised with blackened faces. Walker tried to get to his guns but the men su...
Edit Ever since the conquest of New France by England, the status of French law in Quebec was uncertain. The Quebec Act clarified matters a great deal...
As soon as England had separated Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the new legislature of Upper Canada (Ontario) u...
Politicians tried to appoint a 23-year old as King Counsel, bringing the practice to ridicule. The man had but a few months of call to the bar.
In 1835, the popular Halifax Newspaper editor Joseph Howe published a letter critical of local government and faced libel charges. He could not find a...
A short-lived 1837 rebellion in Upper and Lower Canada, against British rule, both ended in failure. Several of the ring-leaders in both Canadas were ...
In 1850, a Canadian judge gave the death penalty to an 11-year-old boy convicted of murder.
In August 1858, the British government declared Vancouver Island a colony and appointed Sir James Douglas as its first governor. Matthew Begbie was se...
A law passed by the British Parliament that said that any law of a British colony that differed with a British law specifically aimed at that colony, ...
1867 British North America Act, aka the "BNA", the full text of Canada's genesis constitutional document.
Yes, folks. Quebec has not been the only province to seek separation! How about Nova Scotia?!
By 1868 Thomas D'Arcy McGee seemed to have come full circle in his political ways. In the spring of 1857, after a tumultuous career as an Ireland ...
The beginning of Canada's Supreme Court.
On March 14, 1870, a full 10 days after the execution of Thomas Scott by Louis Rie's Métis band, a member asked Sir George Cartier the followin...
Precursor of international law - Canada-USA variety, circa 1871: the great reciprocity debate.
Louis Riel's flair for the dramatic.
Arrested by the provisional government of the Red River Colony (Manitoba), Thomas Scott was charged with insubordination. Scott was extremely arrogant...
In 1877, a litigation craze hit sleepy Ottawa.
The McLean outlaws met their maker when they killed the local law.
1884: The Free-Masons break up a snowy winter.
In 1885, an MP proves the contrary point the minute he opens his mouth.
Oh, yeah! Bring it on brother! Laurier flaps his marvelous French-Canadian wings.
An avant garde statute rolled out in Ottawa, circa 1889, was a keeper; precursor to competition, fair trade and antitrust statutes now worldwide.
The appropriation of the estates of the Jesuits - a dynamite issue.
It all started in 1892. English criminal law had worn out its welcome.
The exclusive club of male legislators still believed what their forefathers had taught them and also, perhaps, that the earth was flat.
That whole "discretion .... valour" thing never comes easy for a political appointee, especially one blessed "majestically".
Clara Brett Martin was first refused admission as a student-at-law with the Law Society of Upper Canada. In 1893, after a special law was passed to fo...
British Columbia enacts a law which prohibits the use of wigs in B.C. courts.
1906: La Presse journalist Ernest Eugene Cinq-Mars is hauled in for contempt of Parliament, merely for publishing some damn good copy.
Canada's last sputtering of racist laws.
A temporary income tax? Anyone wanna buy a bridge?
"She will vindicate the confidence that the last Parliament has reposed in her sex."
Shame on Canada for letting the Klu Klux Klan target French-Canadians in the 1920s.
[Caption: Mr. Bennett and Mr. King were never great friends; but nor was there ever any great enmity between the two, as this 1933 picture shows.]
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At least that's what the Supreme Court in Canada decided in April of 1928. In a unanimous decision, Canada's highest court said that women were legall...
The English Parliament has actually given the title of "Statute of Westminster" to four different laws. Three of them were passed in the 1200s. the on...
As Canada struggles with organized labour, Canada's chief law-maker, the prime minister, inherits the description "Mussolini is but a child".
Just as prime minister Mackenzie King was about to leave his office to attend the opening of the 20th Parliament he received a secret communiqué from ...
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EThe Communist party was outlawed in 1940 by Mackenzie King's 'order-in-council government'
Dorise Nielsen, the Unity party member for North Battlefo...
Keeping "very bad" company.
Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.
Cas=nada, like all nations stuck under the yolk of England as es-colonies, emeeging countries, had to take their disentangelmen5 piece by piece.
Time had come to sever the umbilical cord.
Edit 1949Best of HansardBy Lloyd Duhaime[Caption: Stuart Sinclair Garson: minister of justice in 1948]Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie's Liberal adm...
Very few practicing Canadian lawyers a lot of had the privilege if not the agony of having to read and study and interpret run correctly against dupli...
Difficult divorce: Mrs. Jacqueline Mazurette, to be "Ms" at a price.
On Dec. 8, 1964, the six-month flag debate was about to be abruptly terminated by closure. Like most Canadians, Gilles Grégoire's patience with the Co...
Of homos and government and a good dose of utter nonsense.
Ottawa invoked the War Measures Act on October 16, 1970, and for a short time and at the request of the Premier of Quebec, to respond to Quebec separa...
Quebec National Assembly votes Bill 101 into law making French the only official language of the province. Severe restrictions are placed on access to...
October 23, 1980: all Hell breaks loose in Canada's House of Commons when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tries to close debate on the repatriation of the Constitution.
In 1982, Canada cut the second last legal umbilical chord with Great Britain.
The June 3, 1987 Constitutional Accord (Proposal - a proposal in that it never did receive the necessary endorsements from the provincial legislatures...
A bitter personal struggle underscores nation building.
A proposed Quebec law, called the Charter Affirming the Values of State Secularism and Religious Neutrality, came down in flames as a result of the 2014 provincial election. The failed experiment in the enforcement of secularism including the partial prohibition of overtly religious apparel in public places, shook Quebec to its core, and grabbed the attention of Canada.
David William Ramsay is a name lawyers in Prince George would certainly like to forget; and, for that matter, every lawyer in British Columbia. Judici...
A biography of George Etienne Cartier.
Judge The best-known reported case of Judge’ Boilard’s conduct is within the Supreme Court of Canada case Doré v the Barreau du Que...
EdTo protest her slavery and pending sale, a black slave burnt down her master's house in Montreal. Unfortunately for Marie-Joseph-Angelique, the fire...
Ron,MacIsaac,F.T., biography, Vancvouver Islandf lawyer and now, Member, the Canadian Lawyer Hall of Fame.
A timetable, timeline of Canadian legal history: in chronological order: when, what, who. From the arrival of the First Nations to now, and all important landmarks in-between.