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Notes, correspondence, magazine articles, provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on judicial legislation and juries. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on aboriginal rights and the Divorce Act. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce and constitutional law. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on justice, marriage, and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on widow's rights and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Notes, correspondence, magazine articles, provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on women's roles, discrimination of women, human rights, and women's history. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and journal articles. Specifically research on women's rights and equal pay. Copies of historical legislation only.

Notes, correspondence, magazine articles, provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on constitutional law, aboriginal rights, and the Indian Act. Copies of historical legislation only.

Provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce, anti-discrimination law, and women's place in society. Copies of historical legislation only.

Provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons bills, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce and equal rights for men and women. Includes legislation from Lower Canada (Quebec) and the United Kingdom. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on women's legal rights and responsibilities. Copies of historical legislation only.

Dominion Law Reports and court documents from provincial courts on various divorce cases and accidental death. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on civil servants, pensions, wills, suffrage, and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on laws pertaining to lawyers, divorce, desertion, maintenance, seduction and child sexual abuse, and child custody. Copies of historical legislation only.

Notes, correspondence, magazine articles, provincial and federal legislation, United Nations reports, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on criminal law, aboriginal rights and the Indian Act, women's rights, and genocide in international law. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on marriage and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce, anti-discrimination law, and women's place in society. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on constitutions, Parliamentary Government, and rights of married women. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on married women's legal rights and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on maintenance after divorce and aboriginal rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

House of Lords research materials on divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce, the representation of women, and women's rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on marriage, the legal rights of married women, and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on appointment of judges, women's employment, and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce, child abuse, and child custody. Copies of historical legislation only.

Notes, correspondence, memorandum, provincial and federal legislation, United Nations reports, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on women's rights, women's employment, gender stereotypes, criminal law, and the rights of illegitimate children. Copies of historical legislation only.

Provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on gender inequality, women's legal rights, and women's place in society. Copies of historical legislation only.

Extracts from "The College, The Market and The Court" by Caroline Dall; Bill 86: A Bill to Establish the Women's Cultural and Information Bureau (3rd session, 15th Legislature, Alberta); extract from Publication of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children (Montreal); extracts from "On Liberty - The Subjection of Women" by John Stuart Mill.

Legislation, copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, organizational charts, brochures, biographies, information booklets, and lists of ministers regarding the organization, function, governing legislation, and history of the Department of Justice, as well as reports to Parliament on recommendations for the Department of Justice.

Criminal code and copies of book chapters regarding vagrants, public morals, public nuisance, women's rights, dower laws, women in the criminal justice system, delinquents, and women in politics.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce, alimony, and child custody. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on aboriginal rights and the Indian Act. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on property rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on marriage dowries and property rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on family law and immigration. Copies of historical legislation only, including Canadian Status from before the establishment of Parliament.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on constitutions, Parliamentary Government, and gendered language in law. Copies of historical legislation only.

Notes, correspondence, magazine articles, provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on women in government, women in law, women's education, women's representation, and gendered language. Copies of historical legislation only.

"Women: A Bibliography" by Lucinda Cisler; "Miss Christabel Pankhurst: The Militant Suffragette," a speech delivered by Pankhurst; "The Social Background of the Reformation" by Preserved Smith; a copy of the Introduction of Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada by Constance Backhouse; a copy of the article "Pornography -- not sex but the obscene use of power" by Helen Dudar from Ms. magazine; "Single Women in the Public Service in Centre Town Ottawa: A Survey of Resources" published by the Canadian Research Centre for Anthropology; articles from The National Legal News Magazine November/December 1973; "Should American Colleges be open to Women as well as to Men?: A paper presented to the Twentieth Annual Convocation of the Univsersity of the State of New York" by Frederick Barnard; "The Reformation of the Family: A discourse" by Pere Hyacinthe; The Assaulted Wife: "Catch 22" Revisited (A Preliminary Overview of Wife-Beating in Michigan) by Sue Eisenberg and Patricia Micklow.

Newspaper clippings, extracts, and articles regarding women's rights, women's suffrage, women's prisons, female criminals, and historical events sent to ME Ritchie by J. Alex Edmison.

The History of the Law of England as to the Effects of Marriage on Property and on the Wife's Legal Capacity by Courtney Stanhope Kenny, Fellow and Law lecturer of Downing College, Cambridge; chapters "Sterilization" and "Artificial Insemination" from The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law by Glanville Williams; The High-Caste Hindu Woman by Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati.

Legal definitions from legal articles, dictionaries, and court decisions.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on women in government and immigration. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on immigration. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on civil service, divorce, and jury duty. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on marriage and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on married women's legal rights, divorce, and aboriginal rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

Transcripts from House of Commons debate regarding electoral franchise and woman's suffrage.

Newspaper clippings, extracts, obituaries, and articles regarding women's rights and historical events sent to ME Ritchie by J. Alex Edmison.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on aboriginal rights, divorce, human rights, and juvenile courts. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on women's legal rights, women on juries, and aboriginal rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

Rules of the Senate of Canada from 1990 and 1964 as well as "Moral Legislation: A Statement Prepared for the Information of the Senate."

"Woman: Her Character, Culture and Calling" published by the Book and Bible House, Brantford, Ontario; Proceedings of A Symposium on Sex Education for those involved in an aspect of Education or Counselling in Toronto -- "Family Life Education: A Community Repsonsibility"; a copy of Don't: A Woman's Word by Elly Danica.

Notes, correspondence, magazine articles, provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on women's education, marriage laws by province, and annulment. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on aboriginal rights, children's rights, and child support. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on women's rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

Provincial and federal legislation and court documents regarding divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on maintenance, child welfare, and secession from British rule. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, Privy Council decisions, Provincial legislation, legal dictionary entries, Canadian Bar Association meeting minutes, Canadian Bar Review, House of Commons debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Also includes court documents from the United States.

Supreme Court of Canada proceedings and the Privy Council regarding land disputes, territory boundaries, and territory disputes in the commonwealth and North America. Copies of historical legislation only.

Copies of book chapters, encyclopedia articles, and map regarding the history of Palestine and Arab-Israeli conflicts.

Extracts from The Tenacity of Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in Contemporary America by Gertrude Selznick and Stephen Steinberg, Geography of Israel by Efraim Orni and Elisha Efrat, Canadian Human Rights Commission's Calendar of Religious Holidays 1980, extracts from A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, accomplished in the Year 1900 by H. Rider Haggard, Crisis and Conscience in the Middle East by Christian Jauer, Jr., and extracts from Peace-keeping by U.N. Forces: From Suez to the Congo by Arthur Burns and Nina Heathcote regarding anti-semitism, and Arab-Israeli conflicts.

Notes, correspondence, magazine articles, provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons and Senate debates, and legal articles regarding research on women's roles and women's employment. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on habeas corpus, child welfare, and child support. Copies of historical legislation only.

Copies of book chapters, law reviews, and articles regarding research on constitutional law.

Historical research including British Parliamentary debates, British Report by the Select Committee, correspondence, Canadian Human Rights Commission casebook, and booklets regarding equal pay, the nationality of married women, women's roles, and women and girls in legislation. Also includes Ms. magazine, the Common Law Bulletin, and femspeak newsletter

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on marriage rights and illegitimate children. Copies of historical legislation only.

Memorandum and correspondence regarding citizenship for women after marriage to a foreigner and League of Nations documents on trafficing women and children.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on women's rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

A copy of The German Woman and her Master by Henry de Halsalle and C. Sheridan Jones, published by T. Werner Laurie Ltd.; a copy of Caroline Norton by Alice Acland, annotated with notes from M.E. Ritchie and others, published by Constable and Company Ltd.

Copies of book chapters, encyclopedia articles, British and Foreign State Papers, treaties, handbooks, and maps regarding the political and cultural history of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Kurds.

Correspondence, memorandum, copies of newspaper clippings, meeting minutes of the Privy Council, telegrams, and research from the original Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada.

Ms. Magazine volume VII, number 7 and 8; "Women and the World of Work: Issues in the '80s: A Selective Bibliography 1980-1982" by Marian Dworaczek, part of the Public Administration Series: Bibliography P-1243; Law and Contemporary Problems volume 18, number 1 "Divorce: A Re-examination of Basic Concepts" published by the School of Law at Duke University; "Supplementary Report on Women's University Education" published by the British Educational Mission to the United States"; Radcliffe Quarterly volume 51, number 4 and volume 52, number 2 (with an additional copy of the article "Separate but equal is not enough for women" by Deborah Gilman and Hulda Flynn).

British and Foreign State Papers, handbooks, treaties, and encyclopedia articles regarding British rule over Palestine and Lebanon. Also includes a copy of the treaty of Versailles

Copy of a letter from Nellie McClung to Miss Steadman about publishing a story.

Copies of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and political cartoons regarding human trafficking, domestic abuse, political correctness, sharia law, polygamy, rape laws, abortion law, women's equality, women's employment, equal opportunity, women in religion, and women in politics.

Supreme Court decisions, Privy Council decisions, Provincial legislation, legal dictionary entries, Canadian Bar Association meeting minutes, Canadian Bar Review, and constitutional law research materials. Also includes court documents from the United States.

International reviews, House of Commons and Senate debates, and federal and provincial legislation regarding equal rights, qualifications for government positions, bilingualism, and women's rights in China. Copies of historical legislation only.

Dominion Law Reports and court documents from provincial courts on divorce, alimony, and criminal law. Copies of historical legislation only.

Copies of book chapters, United Nations reports, law journals, maps, copies of newspaper clippings, and pamphlets regarding Palestine and Israeli territory, Palestinian refugees, Zionism, the Holocaust, and women's rights.

Copy of the petition presented to William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1922 asking him to appoint Emily Murphy to the Senate. Also includes a 2009 reflection on Protests and Petitions.

Articles, copies of book chapters, maps, and encyclopdeia entries regarding the history of the crisis in the middle east and territorial boundaries in the middle east.

Dominion Law Reports and court documents from provincial courts on various divorce cases. Copies of historical legislation only.

Correspondence and telegrams to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King suggesting Emily Murphy be appointed Senator. Also includes meeting minutes from the Senate.

Correspondence, memorandum, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, regarding Professor J. Alex Edmison's career and work with Lesley Forrester, the Meech Lake Accord, bilingualism, women's rights, and the history of the Edmoson family in Canada.

Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, biographies, House of Commons minutes, and archival research regarding the Royal Commission on Customs and Excise in 1926-1927, a customs scandal wherein the Minister of Custons Jacques Bureau accepted bribes, war profiteering, and the Dorion report.

Research on Senator Jacques Bureau and the role of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Senator Bureau, and W.A. Buchanan in passing over Emily Murphy for Senator. Includes correspondence and an interim report of the Commission on Customs and Excise,

Correspondence, memorandum, and notes regarding divorce law and proceedings in the Northwest Territories, specifically relating to the existence of divorce courts, maintenance orders, and confirmations of divorces granted by the Northwest Territories. Main cases being referenced are Sykes v. Sykes and Voghell v. Voghell and Pratt.

Reports, correspondence, conventions, and treaties regarding the restructuring of External Affairs under the Trudeau government, human rights in South Africa, United Nations Commission on Human Rights session documents, hostages, economic, social, and cultural rights, women's rights, racial discrimination, marriage, and slavery.

Provincial and federal legislation, House of Commons bills, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on the status of women, discrimination, and Human Rights. Copies of historical legislation only.

Dominion Law Reports and court documents from provincial courts on various divorce cases. Copies of historical legislation only.

Supreme Court of Canada proceedings and proceedings of the appeal to the Privy Council for the Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada.

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, reports, and supporting documents regarding Sophie Steadman's work as the executive secretary of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, women's equality, human rights, the Canadian Constitution, and social justice conferences.

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on justice system, lawyers, divorce, maintenance, child custody and welfare. Copies of historical legislation only.

Correspondence, memorandum, Privy Council and Supreme Court proceedings, copies of newspaper clippings, Privy Council meeting minutes, notes, and research from the original Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada. Also contains access to information requests from the mid 1980s for access to original Persons Case documents.

Proceedings of the appeal to the Privy Council for the Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada. Also contains Supreme Court of Canada proceedings and memorandum on the Persons Case.

Correspondence, certificates, awards, transcripts, and diplomas awarded to ME Ritchie for her education, service, participation, and contributions. These include service awards for time spent at the Department of Justice, enrollment certificates, university diplomas, acceptance into the Alberta Bar, and student awards.

Historical legislation, law review articles, correspondence, copies of book chapters, and articles regarding legal research on constitutional laws, treaties, women's equality in the law, validity of statutes, education, immigration, and federalism.

Correspondence, memorandum, notices from the Supreme Court, telegrams, and research from the original Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada.

Supreme Court decisions, Provincial and federal legislation, copies newspaper clippings, and copies of the United Church Observer regarding Japanese immigrants and discrimination, civil rights, and Church positions of conflicts in South Africa, israel, and the middle east. Copies of historical legislation only.

Legal research and final Federal Court of Canada decision regarding Nanoose Bay.