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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 2
Series 1 Resources
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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