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| Title: | Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework
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| Author: | Richard Connors & John Law (eds) |
| ISBN: | 0888644574 : 9780888644572 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 150x230mm |
| Pages: | 538 |
| Weight: | 1 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - November 2005 |
| List Price: | 43.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Local history: Alberta: Constitution: government & the state |
This Book analyses the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson’s Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta’s constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta’s legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments.
A Legal and Constitutional History of Alberta; In the Mind's Eye: Law and British Colonial Expansion in Rupert's Land in the Age of Empire; Ambiguous Authority: The Development of Criminal Law in the Canadian North-West and Alberta; Venerable Rights: Constitutionalising Alberta's Schools, 1869-1905; One Language and One Nationality: The Forcible Constitution of a Unilingual Province in a Bilingual Country, 1870-2005; Out of the West: History, Memory, and the "Persons" Case, 1919-2000; Alberta's Real Constitution: The National Resources Transfer Agreement; Bible Bill and the Money Barons: The Social Credit Court References and their Constitutional Consequences; Not Like the Others: The Regulation of Indian Hunting and Fishing in Alberta; Justices of the Peace in Alberta; Alberta's Crowning Glory: The Office of Lieutenant-Governor; Federal-Provincial Tensions and the Evolution of a Province; Alberta Métis Settlements: A Brief History; The Perfect Storm: The National Energy Program and the Failure of Federal-Provincial Relations; Premiere Peter Lougheed, Alberta and the Transformation of Constutionalism in Canada, 1971-1985; Equality and Women's Political Identity in Post-1970s Alberta; Uncertain Future: Alberta in the Canadian Community.
