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Canadian legal history

Indigenous legal traditions by edited by the Law Commission of Canada.
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9786612593505
Publication Date: 2008
Justice Within : indigenous legal traditions by John Borrows; Law Commission of Canada
Call Number: Open access title available to download free via title link
ISBN: 0662494717
Publication Date: 2006
Open access. Print copy at KL8.C1.LAW 2006 Discussion paper (Law Commission of Canada)

Indigenous Foundations [Canada]
Open access. "an information resource on key topics relating to the histories, politics, and cultures of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada." " Indigenous Foundations was developed by the First Nations Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people."
Tepi’ketuek Mi’kmaw Archives [Canada]
Open access.
For current rights and status of First People's

Oxford Historical Treaties
Alternative names: OHT ; CTS

Oxford Historical Treaties (OHT) makes the full text of The Consolidated Treaty Series (CTS) available online, each treaty available as a PDF.
Parry's CTS is considered the most comprehensive collection of treaties (from all nations)for the period 1648 to 1919.

Canada: Background to the Historic Treaties with Indigenous Peoples
Open access from official webste
Canada: The Numbered Treaties (1871-1921)
Open access via official website. Foot of page has links to transcripts of the treaties
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"These treaties covered the area between the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains to the Beaufort Sea. Similar to the Robinson Treaties, the so-called Numbered Treaties promised reserve lands, annuities, and the continued right to hunt and fish on unoccupied Crown lands in exchange for Aboriginal title. However, these treaties also held clauses that were very similar to many of the civilisation programs undertaken in central Canada. All treaties had clauses for schools or teachers to educate children, and agricultural implements were promised to assist Aboriginal signatories in their transition towards an agricultural lifestyle. Aboriginal signatories were encouraged to settle on reserve lands in sedentary communities, learn agriculture and receive an education. The Treaty Commissioners explained that the reserves were to assist Aboriginal people to adapt to a life without the buffalo hunt and that the Government would assist them in the transition to agriculture by providing tools and other farming implements."

LLMC-digital
Alternative names: LLMC ; Law Library Microfilm Consortium’s Online Service ; LLMC Digital

LLMC-digital is a collection of English language legal titles and government documents divided into ten major jurisdictional or subject areas:
US Federal Government; US States and Territories; Canada; United Kingdom; Germany federal; Germany state, kingdoms and free cities; Other Countries (Afghanistan to Zimbabwe); International Law and Organizations; Indigenous Law covering materials from various regions of the United States, Canada and Indonesia; and Special Focus Collections which includes British Empire Studies, Canon Law, Islamic Law, Military Law, Native American Collection, Roman law, etc.

Canadiana
OA site. In 2018, CRKN merged with Canadiana.org, an organization dedicated to the preservation and access of Canada’s documentary heritage since 1978. As a merged organization, CRKN continues its core licensing activities for scholarly journal content, while expanding support for the digitization and preservation of, and access to, Canadian heritage content.

Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Alternative name: OIELH

The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History is the online version of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (edited by S.N. Katz et al) published by OUP in 2009.

A history of law in Canada. Volume One, Beginnings to 1866 by Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and R. Blake Brown.
Call Number: KL400.C1.GIR 2019
ISBN: 9781487547462
Publication Date: 2018
A history of law in Canada. Volume two, Law for a new dominion, 1867-1914 by Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, R. Blake Brown
Call Number: KL400.C1.GIR 2022
ISBN: 9781487545673
Publication Date: 2022

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth history
Remote access requires Oxford SSO

Open access title available to all with access to the internet:

Canada’s Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back by Mélanie Méthot ; Ted McCoy ; Lyndsay Campbell
Call Number: Open access title available to all online via title link
ISBN: 9781773851174
Publication Date: 2020
Open Access online Scroll down and click Free PDF link near foot of U Calgary's bookshop webage

Podcast: Time Immemorial (Canada)
Open access. A series sponsored by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History:
Osgoode Society For Legal History Oral History Program
Since 1979, the Society has conducted more than 600 interviews and deposited over 90,000 pages of transcripts in the Archives of Ontario. Interview subjects include lawyers, judges, politicians, and members of the police services. Interview documentation consists of transcripts.

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