Canadian state trials : Vol 2. Rebellion and invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839 / edited by F Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright.

Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by Univ of Toronto Pr, 2002.

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Law -- Canada -- History.

Trials -- History -- Canada.

Trials (Treason) -- History -- Canada.

Canada -- History.

Introduction: Rebellion, invasion, and the crisis of the colonial state in the Canadas, 1837-39 / F Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright

Part I. Upper Canada: 1. Trying the rebels : emergency legislation and the colonial executive's overall legal strategy in the Upper Canadian rebellion / Rainer Baehre

2. The Toronto treason trials, March-May 1838 / Paul Romney and Barry Wright

3. The treason trials of 1838 in Western Upper Canada / Colin Read

4. The Kingston and London courts martial / Barry Wright

5. The Prince affair : gallant colonel or the Windsor butcher? / F Murray Greenwood

6. Patriot exiles in Van Diemen's Land / Cassandra Pybus

Part II. Lower Canada: 7. This ultimate resource: martial law and state repression in Lower Canada, 1937-38 / Jean-Marie Fecteau

8. State trial by legislature : the Special Council of Lower Canada, 1838-41 / Steven Watt

9. The General Court Martial at Montreal, 1838-39 : operation and the Irish comparison / F Murray Greenwood

10. The Montreal Court Martial, 1838-39 : legal and constitutional reflections / F Murray Greenwood

11. Women's work : women and re bellion in Lower Canada, 1837-39 / Beverley Boissery and Carla Paterson

12. The punishment of transportation as suffered by the Patriotes sent to New South Wales / Beverley Boissery

Appendices : archival research and supporting documents: A. In pursuit of rebels at the National Archives of Canada : beyond the usualr round-up of suspect sources / Patricia Kennedy

Tables of National Archives sources with commentary (P Kennedy)

B. Archival sources in Quebec relating to the legal suppression of the rebellions of 1837 and 1838 in Lower Canada / James Lambert

C. Rebellion trials sources in Ontario Archives / Susan Lewthwaite

D. Supporting documents.

Includes index.

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