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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IV: Beyond the Law: Lawyers and Business in Canada, 1830-1930
1990 Edited by Carol Wilton. Published with Butterworths Canada, 1990.
Beyond the Law has been called “the first full-length collection offering a serious scholarly treatment of the role of the legal profession in any aspect of Canadian history”. These essays explore new ground in tracing the increasingly complex involvement of lawyers in Canadian business during a critical period of economic development. They demonstrate how lawyers across the country served not only as technical advisors to business figures, but as business leaders in their own right. Moreover, these essays demonstrate how lawyers advanced business interests through their multi-faceted involvement in the political process. Contributions by distinguished British and American scholars add a comparative dimension to this study of the relationship between lawyers and business during the industrial age.
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Contents
Foreword
R. ROY McMURTRY and PETER N. OLIVER xi
Preface xv
Contributors xvii
1 Introduction: Beyond the Law – Lawyers and Business
In Canada, 1830 to 1930
CAROL WILTON 3
2 Law Practice and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
Montreal: The Torrance-Morris Firm, 1848 to 1868
G. BLAINE BAKER 45
3 Dimensions of a Law Practice: Brokerage and Ideology in
the Career of George-Étienne Cartier
BRIAN YOUNG 92
4 Lawyers as Members of Urban Business Élites in
Southern Ontario, 1860 to 1920
ELIZABETH BLOOMFIELD 112
5 McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin, and Creelman, 1882 to 1902:
Establishing a Reputation, Building a Practice
CURTIS COLE 149
6 E. E. A. DuVernet, KC: Lawyer, Capitalist, 1866 to 1915
JOHN D. HONSBERGER 167
7 International Corporate Law from a Maritime Base:
The Halifax Firm of Harris, Henry, and Cahan
GREGORY P. MARCHILDON 201
8 The Lawyer as Entrepreneur: Robert Home Smith in
Early-Twentieth-Century Toronto
JAMES H. GUNN 235
9 ‘It is Every Man for Himself’: Winnipeg Lawyers and
the Law Business, 1870 to 1903
RICHARD A. WILLIE 263
10 Lawyers, Finance, and Economic Development in
Southwestern Alberta, 1884 to 1920
HENRY C. KLASSEN 298
11 Richard ‘Bonfire’ Bennett: The Legal Practice of a Prairie
Corporate Lawyer, 1898 to 1913
LOUIS A. KNAFLA 320
12 Ideology, Social Capital, and Entrepreneurship: Lawyers and
Business in Red Deer, Alberta, 1900 to 1920
JONATHAN S. SWAINGER 377
13 ‘High-powered Lawyers, Veteran Lobbyists, Cunning
Propagandists’: Canadian Lawyers and the Beauharnois Scandal
T. D. REGEHR 403
14 A Perspective from the United States
ROBERT W. GORDON 425
15 Lawyers and Business in England, 1750 to 1950
DAVID SUGARMAN 437
Index 480
Reviews
This book builds on these two scholarly traditions in examining the connections between lawyers and the business world, and is also the first full-length collection offering a serious scholarly treatment of the role of the legal profession in any aspect of Canadian history. Jim Phillips, Canadian Historical Review, vol 74, 1993, p. 281.
This superb collection of essays illustrates how the relationship between lawyers and business evolved in Canada during the period from 1830 to 1930 .... They illustrate clearly how lawyers had immense opportunities open to them to use their professional standing as springboards to business endeavours. Anthony F. Brown, Ontario History, vol 84, 1992, p. 70.
The collection constitutes a wonderful means to widen the legal imagination and to awaken a sense of historical perspective. The takes of new professional challenges, riches, power and scandals in the face of economic change make for interesting leisure reading.... This collection is of relevance to a wide-ranging readership and breaks new ground for further research. Barry Wright, Canadian Business Law Journal, vol 21, 1992, p. 146.
Christopher English, Canadian Historical Review, Vol 79, 1998, p. 602.
Margaret McCallum, McGill Law Journal, Vol 37, 1992, p. 352.