Description
“An excellent continuation of the Canadian State Trials series, this volume adds considerably to our understanding of the history of state repression, class and labour relations, and the administration of justice.”
Chapter
Introduction: War Measures and the Repression of Radicalism
1 “They Will Be Dangerous”: Security and the Control of Enemy Aliens in Canada, 1914
2 Enemy Aliens in the First World War: Legal and Constitutional Issues
3 Erroneous and Detestable: Seditious Language and the Great War in Western Canada
4 Conscription and the Courts: The Case of George Edwin Gray, 1918
5 Court-Martial at Vladivostok: Mutiny and Military Justice during the First World War
6 “Daniel de Leon Drew up the Diagram”: Winnipeg’s Seditious-Conspiracy Trials of 1919–20
7 The Devil’s Drum: Seditious Libel in Industrial Cape Breton, 1923
8 Red Scares and Repression in Quebec, 1919–39
9 Section 98: The Trial of Rex v. Buck et al. and the “State of Exception” in Canada, 1919–36
10 The Canadian State, Ethnicity, and Religious Non-Conformism: The Trials of Peter Petrovich Verigin
11 Wiping out the Stain: The On-to-Ottawa Trek, the Regina Riot, and the Search for Answers
A. Archival Sources and User Challenges at Library and Archives Canada
B. A Note on Access-to-Information Challenges