Canadian State Trials, Volume IV : Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939

The fourth volume in the __Canadian State Trials__ series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression.

The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression. War prompted the development of new government powers and raised questions about citizenship and Canadian identity, while the ensuing interwar years brought serious economic challenges and unprecedented tensions between labour and capital.

            The chapters in this edited collection, written by leading scholars in numerous fields, examine the treatment of enemy aliens, conscription and courts martial, sedition prosecutions during the war and after the Winnipeg General Strike, and the application of Criminal Code and Immigration Act laws to Communist Party leaders, On to Ottawa Trekkers, and minority groups. These historical events shed light on contemporary dilemmas: What are the limits of dissent in war, emergencies, and economic crisis? What limits should be placed on government responses to real and perceived challenges to its authority?

And incompetent justice : Legal repsonses to the 1885 Crisis [North-West Rebellions] / Bob Beal and B. Wright -- Another look at the Riel Trial for Treason [Louis Riel] / J.M. Bumstead -- The White Man governs. : The 1885 Indian trials [Indians, First Nation, Aboriginal or Native peoples] / Bill Waiser -- [Securing the dominion] -- High-handed, impolite, and empire-breaking actions : radicalism, anti-imperialism and political policing in Canada, 1860-1914 / Andrew Parnaby, Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth -- Codification, public order and the security provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892 / Desmond H. Brown, B. Wright -- Appendices : Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds ; Archival Sources in Canada for Riel's Rebellion Contents 5 Foreword 7 Acknowledgments 9 Contributors 13 Introduction: War Measures and the Repression of Radicalism 17 1. “They Will Be Dangerous” 58 2. Enemy Aliens in the First World War 87 3. Erroneous and Detestable 113 4. Conscription and the Courts 148 5. Court-Martial at Vladivostok 188 6. “Daniel de Leon Drew up the Diagram” 233 7. The Devil’s Drum 277 8. Red Scares and Repression in Quebec, 1919–39 306 9. Section 98 340 10. The Canadian State, Ethnicity, and Religious Non-Conformism 380 11. Wiping out the Stain 418 Appendices 455 Index 523