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  • Death in the Queen City

    Clara Ford on Trial, 1895

    par Patrick Brode ...
    A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto's prevailing sense of peace and security. That gunshot took the life of Frank Westwood, a respectable young man from one of the city's most prominent families. This unprecedented attack produced a feeling of hysteria throughout Toronto and baffled the municipal police forces. The mystery was even referred to Arthur Conan Doyle, ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945

    par Patrick Brode ...
    This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Traitor By Default

    The Trials of Kanao Inouye, the Kamloops Kid

    par Patrick Brode ...
    At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre stories to emerge at the end of the Second World War was that of Kanao Inouye. Born in Kamloops, B.C., in 1916, he had relocated to his ancestral homeland of Japan, and by 1942 was a translator for the Japanese army. He was ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Sir John Beverley Robinson

    Bone and Sinew of the Compact

    par Patrick Brode ...
    Collections series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its devotion to the Crown, with little room for dissent. As a true loyalist son, educated by John Strachan, Robinson ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Courted and Abandoned

    Seduction in Canadian Law

    par Patrick Brode ...
    Collections series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    A pregnancy outside of marriage was a traumatic event in frontier Canada, one that had profound legal implications, not only for the mother, but also for the woman's family, the alleged father, and for the entire community. Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada – breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Dying for a Drink

    How a Prohibition Preacher Got Away with Murder

    par Patrick Brode ...
    style="text-align: center;">AS SEEN ON TV ONTARIO'S THE AGENDA WITH STEVE PAIKINstyle="text-align: center;">FINALIST FOR THE 2019 ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOKKnown to history as “The Fighting Parson,” Reverend J.O.L. Spracklin broke into a notorious Windsor roadhouse one chilly November night in 1920 and shot and killed barkeep Beverly “Babe” Trumble. Easily acquitted by ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments

    Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948

    par Patrick Brode ...
    Collections series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    War crimes prosecutions create unique difficulties as civilian standards of law are applied to the extraordinary circumstances of war. Governments are often surprisingly hesitant to pursue war criminals. Patrick Brode has produced a fascinating study of such issues in Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgements, a history of Canada’s prosecution of war crimes committed during the Second World War. ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Memoirs and Reflections

    par Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's Lawyers, 1797-1997

    par Christopher Moore ...
    Collections series Heritage
    At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today's Law Society of Upper Canada, with more than 25,000 members, still wields these powers. Marking the ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • A New Kind of Monster

    The Secret Life and Chilling Crimes of Colonel Russell Williams

    par Timothy Appleby ...
    Ripped from the headlines, the horrific and astonishing true story of the double life of Russell Williams, who was at once a respected figure in the Canadian military and a ruthless sado-sexual serial criminal and murderer.In the annals of psycho-killers, Colonel Russell Williams may well be unique. A decorated air force colonel, Williams was, for years, living a double life as a sado-sexual home ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Raw Life

    Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book

    par J. Patrick Boyer ...
    Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials conducted in 1890s Muskoka by Magistrate James Boyer of Bracebridge. The charges and evidence show how raw life really was in Canada's frontier towns, with cases ranging from nostalgic and humorous to pitiable and deeply disturbing.While dispensing speedy justice, Boyer, who was also town clerk and editor of the Northern ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Last Spike

    The Great Railway, 1881-1885

    par Pierre Berton ...
    In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre Berton recreates the adventures that were part of this vast undertaking: the railway on the ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD