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Security, Dissent and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace: Canadian State Trials Volume IV, 1914-1939
2015 
Edited by Barry Wright, Department of Law, Carleton University, Eric Tucker, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Susan Binnie, Independent Historian, published by the University of Toronto Press.
This latest collection in our State Trials series, the fourth, looks at the legal issues raised by the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the 1930s and the Great Depression. Topics covered include enemy aliens, conscription and courts-martial in World War I, the trials following the Winnipeg General Strike, sedition laws and prosecutions generally and their application to labour radicals in particular, the 1931 trial of the Communist Party leaders, and the religious-political dissent of the Doukhobors. All regions of the country are covered, and special attention given in one essay to Quebec’s repression of radicalism.
The volume focusses attention on older manifestations of contemporary dilemmas: what are the acceptable limits of dissent in a democracy, and what limits should be placed on state responses to perceived challenges to its authority.
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Contents
Foreward vii
Acknowledgements ix
Contributors xii
Introduction: War Measures and the Repression of Radicalism
Barry Wright, Eric Tucker, and Susan Binnie 3
1. “They Wil Be Dangerous”: Security and the Control of Enemy Aliens in Canada, 1914
Bohdan S. Kordan 42
2. Enemy Aliens in the First World War: Legal and Constitutional Issues
Peter McDermott 71
3. Erroneous and Detestable: Seditious Language and teh Great War in Western Canada
Jonathan Swainger 97
4. Conscription and the Courts: The Case of George Edwin Gray, 1918
Patricia I. McMahon 132
5. Court-Martial at Vladivostok: Mutiny and Military Justice during the First World War
Benjamin Isitt 172
6. “Daniel de Leon Drew up the Diagram”: Winnipeg’s Seditious-Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920
Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell 217
7. The Devil’s Drum: Seditious Libel in Industrial Cape Breton, 1923
David Frank 261
8. Red Scares and Repression in Quebec, 1919-1939
Andrée Lévesque 290
9. Section 98: The Trial of Rex v Buck et al. and the “State of Exception” in Canada, 1919-36
Dennis G. Monlinaro 324
10.The Canadian state, Ethnicity, and Religious Non-Conformism: The Trial of Peter Petrovich Verigin
John McLaren 364
11.Wiping our the Stain: The On-to-Onttawa Trek, the Regina Riot, and the Search for Answers
Bill Waiser 402
Apprendices
A. Archival Sources and User Challenges at Library and Archives Canada
Judi Cumming 439
B. A Note on Access-to-Information Challenges
Patricia I. McMahon 465
C. Supporting Documents 471
Index 507
Reviews
Each article tells human stories, analyses institutional systems, maps judicial procedures, assesses courtroom outcomes and attempts to contextualise anecdotal and aggregative data …. [The volume] begins and ends with Canada going to Europe’s two wars, between parliamentary passage of the War Measures Act (22 August 1914) and the declaration of war against Germany (10 September 1939)… The book is a great read.’
DeLloyd J. Guth, Labour, Vol 78, 2016, pp. 331-333
