Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Laws and Societies in the Anglo-Canadian North-West Frontier and Prairie Provinces, 1670-1940 -- Part One: First Nations and First Peoples -- 2 Law and Necessity in Western Rupert's Land and Beyond, 1670-1870 -- 3"There Seemed to Be No Recognized Law": Canadian Law and the Prairie First Nations -- 4 The Exclusionary Effect of Colonial Law: Indigenous Peoples and English Law in Western Canada, 1670-1870 -- 5 Discipline and Discretion in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Hudson's Bay Company Private Justice System -- Part Two: Adaptations to Modernity -- 6 Policing Two Imperial Frontiers: The Royal Irish Constabulary and the North-West Mounted Police -- 7 The Common Law and Justices of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories: The First Generation, 1887-1907 -- 8 The Implications of a Provincial Police Force in Alberta and Saskatchewan / -- 9 The Development of Prairie Canada's Water Law, 1870-1940 -- 10 Monopolies and State Regulation: The Calgary Power Company, Utilities, and the Alberta Public Utilities Board, 1910-30 -- 11 The Law and Public Nudity: Prairie and West Coast Reactions to the Sons of Freedom, 1929-32 -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of Cases -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Index of Ordinances, Proclamations, and Statutes -- A -- B -- C -- D -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W.