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The following is a select list of resources for further information on the legal cases featured in this site.

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Series 1 Resources

Coppermine murder trial participants in Edmonton, Alberta, August 1917.

The Coppermine Case

Harring, Sidney L. “The Rich Men of the Country: Canadian Law in the Land of the Copper Inuit, 1914-1930.” Ottawa Law Review 21.1 (1989): 1-64.

Keedy, Edwin R. “A Remarkable Murder Trial: Rex v, Sinnisiak.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 100 (1951-1952): 48-67.

Moyles, R.G. British Law and Arctic Men: The Celebrated 1917 Murder Trials of Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, First Inuit Tried Under White Man’s Law. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1979.

Ridge, Alan D. “C.C. McCaul, Pioneer Lawyer.” Alberta Historical Review 21.1 (Winter 1973): 21-25.

Stevenson, John. “Murder In the Arctic.” Canadian West Magazine 8.3 (July/August/September 1992): 112-118.

Whalley, George “Coppermine Martyrdom.” Queen’s Quarterly 66.4 (Winter 1957): 592-610.

 

Richard Bedford Bennett, 1917

The Feud—Bennett and Lougheed

Gray, James H. R.B. Bennett: The Calgary Years. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Klassen, Henry, C. “Lawyers, Finance and Economic Development in Southwestern Alberta, 1884 to 1920.” In Beyond the Law: Lawyers and Business in Canada, 1830-1930. Vol. 4, Essays in the History of Canadian Law ed. Carol Wilton, 1-56. Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1990.

Knafla, .Louis A. “Richard ‘Bonfire’ Bennett: The Legal Practice of a Prairie Corporate Lawyer, 1898 to 1913. In Beyond the Law: Lawyers and Business in Canada, 1830-1930. Vol. 4, Essays in the History of Canadian Law ed. Carol Wilton, 1-56. Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1990.

McKenna, Marion C. “Sir James Alexander Lougheed: Calgary’s First Senator and City.” In Citymakers: Calgarians After the Frontier, ed. Max Foran and Sheilagh S. Jamieson. Altona: Historical Society of Alberta, Chinook Country Chapter, 1987.

Wilton, Carol. “Inside the Law—Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective.” In Inside the Law: Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective. Vol. 7, Essays in the History of Canadian Law ed. Carol Wilton, 1-56. Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1996.

 

Florence Lassandro, 1922

The Fall of Emperor Pic

Anderson, Frank W. The Rum Runners. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing, 1991.

Anderson, Frank W. “Florence Lassandro.” Chapter in A Dance with Death: Canadian Women on the Gallows, 1754-1954. Saskatoon/Calgary: Fifth House Ltd. 1996.

Brennan, Brian. “Emilio ‘Pic’ Picariello: Bootlegger and convicted murderer 1879-1923; Florence Lassandro: Bootlegger’s accomplice and convicted murderer 1900-1923.” Chapter in Scoundrels and Scallywags: Characters From Alberta’s Past. Calgary: Fifth House Ltd., 2002.

Gray, James H. “McKinley Cameron, the All-Purpose, All-Around All Star.” Chapter in Talk to My Lawyer! Great Stories of Southern Alberta’s Bar & Bench. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1987

Carpenter, Jock. The Bootlegger’s Bride. Canada: Gorman & Gorman, 1993.

van Herk, Aritha. “Driving towards Death.” In Great Dames, ed. Elspeth Cameron and Janice Dickin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Watson, Neil “Counsel for the Defence: John McKinley Cameron K.C.” In Citymakers: Calgarians After the Frontier, ed. Max Foran and Sheilagh S. Jamieson. Altona: Historical Society of Alberta, Chinook Country Chapter, 1987.

 

Judge Jeremiah Travis

The Travis Case—Law Comes to Calgary

Dempsey, Hugh. Calgary: Spirit of the West: A History. Calgary: Glenbow; Saskatoon: Fifth House Ltd., 1994.

Foran, Max. “The ‘Travis Affair.’” Alberta Historical Review 19. 4 (1971): 1-7.

Gray, James H. “Frontier Justice—More or Less.” Chapter in Talk to My Lawyer! Great Stories of Southern Alberta’s Bar & Bench. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1987.

Horrall, Stan “A policeman’s lot is not a happy one; The Mounted Police and Prohibition in the North-West Territories, 1874-91,” Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba Transactions. 3.30 (1973-74): 5-16.

 

John E. Brownlee, Premier of Alberta, 1925-1934

The Brownlee-MacMillan Scandal

Brennan, Brian. “John Edward Brownlee: Fallen premier 1883-1961; Vivian MacMillan: Government stenographer 1912-1980.” Chapter in Scoundrels and Scallywags: Characters From Alberta’s Past. Calgary: Fifth House Ltd., 2002.

Gray, James H. “McPherson and Brownlee, an Underbrush Full of Liberals and Nobody But Liberals.” Chapter in Talk to My Lawyer! Great Stories of Southern Alberta’s Bar & Bench. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1987.

van Herk, Aritha. Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. Toronto: Viking/Penguin Books Canada, 2001.

 

Alice Jamieson, Calgary, Alberta, circa 1913

The Cyr Case

Bedford, Judy “Prostitution in Calgary 1905-1914,” Alberta History 29. 2 (Spring 1981): 1-11.

Bright, David “The Other Woman: Lizzie Cyr and the Origins of the ‘Persons Case.’” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 13. 2 (Fall 1998).

Gray, James H. “McKinley Cameron, the All-Purpose, All-Around All Star.” Chapter in Talk to My Lawyer! Great Stories of Southern Alberta’s Bar & Bench. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1987

Gray, James H. Red Lights on the Prairies. Calgary: Fifth House Ltd., 1971.

MacLaren, John. “The Canadian Magistracy and the Anti-White Slavery campaign, 1900-1920.” In Canadian Perspectives on Law & Society: Issues in Legal History, ed. W. Wesley Pue and Barry Wight. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988.

 

Meeting of Indian Association of Alberta, 1957

The Righteous Anger of Queen Mother Morning Star

Bartlett, Richard H. The Indian Act of Canada. 2nd ed. Saskatchewan: University of Saskatchewan, Native Law Centre, 1988.

Gray, James H. “Queen Mother Morningstar, The Non-Practicing Lawyer who Scalped Indian Affairs.” Chapter in Talk to My Lawyer! Great Stories of Southern Alberta’s Bar & Bench. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1987.

 

August Plaszek, June 27, 1946

The Medicine Hat POW Murder

“A small patch of Canada where Nazism ruled.” In The War That United the Province. Vol. 8, Alberta in the 20th Century: A Journalistic History of the Province, ed. Ted Byfield. Edmonton: United Western Communications, 2000.

Carter, David J. POW: Behind the Canadian Barbed Wire. Elkwater: Eagle Butte Press, 1998.

Duda, Danial. “Ideological Battles in Medicine Hat: The Deaths of August Plaszek and Karl Lehmann.” In For King and Country: Alberta in the Second World War, ed. K.W. Tingley. Edmonton: Provincial Museum of Alberta and Reidmore Books Inc., 1995.

Kelly, John Joseph. “Der Deutsche Kriegsgegfangener auf Alberta: Alberta and the Keeping of German Prisoners of War, 1939-1947.” In For King and Country: Alberta in the Second World War, ed. K.W. Tingley. Edmonton: Provincial Museum of Alberta and Reidmore Books Inc., 1995.

Melady, John. Escape from Canada!: The Untold Story of German POWs in Canada 1939-1945. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981.

 

Premier William Aberhart, circa 1935-1938

The Premier vs. the Constitution

van Herk, Aritha. Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. Toronto: Viking/Penguin Books Canada, 2001.

Boudrea, Joseph A. comp. Alberta, Aberhart and Social Credit, Canadian History Through the Press Series. Toronto: Holt Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1975.

 

Isaac William Cannon Solloway

Double Double Jeopardy

Gray, James H. “I.W.C. Solloway—From Hero to Bum in a Month and a Half.” Chapter in Talk to My Lawyer! Great Stories of Southern Alberta’s Bar & Bench. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1987.

Solloway, I.W.C. Speculators and Politicians. Quebec: Political and Economic Publishing, 1932.

 

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