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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.

Photograph depicts a small waterfall (Ekaluk Cascade) on the Takuirbing River just before the stream enters the eastern end of Nettilling Lake. Soper spent five months in the Nettilling Lake area, surveying its topography, mapping the lake and surrounding terrain, and collecting animal and plant specimens for the Victoria Memorial (later National) Museum of Ottawa.

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.

Photograph depicts Fort Garry. In the foreground is the bank of the Assiniboine River with York boats pulled up from the river. Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Hind's 1858 expedition to the North West Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.

Photograph depicts St. John's Church, Red River. Wooden buttresses on the side indicate structural problems that caused the church to be rebuilt shortly after photograph was taken. Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Y. Hind's 1858 expedition to the Northwest Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.

Photograph depicts McDermot's Store near the Red River, Winnipeg. McDermid was described as the first free trader in Winnipeg.Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Hind's 1858 expedition to the Northwest Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.

Photograph depicts a view of St. Boniface Cathedral. Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Hind's 1858 expedition to the North West Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.

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.

Photograph depicts "Old Fort Whoop-Up," officially known as Fort Hamilton lying between the junciton of the St. Mary's and the then Belly River, now the Old Man. Headquarters of the free whisky traders erected in 1868. Practically an outpost of the I. G. Baker Co. since this firm furnished supplies from Fort Benton to establish post along the Old Forts Trail; later occupied by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.

Photograph depicts Councillors of the Provisional Government of the Metis Nation.

Photograph depicts Winnipeg street scene. View is the west side of Main Street from the south side of First Street south of Portage Avenue. Office for Duffin and Company, Photographers in the foreground.

Photograph depicts Fort Garry.

Photograph depicts a sketch of Fort Carlton. It was established in 1810 as a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade and provision post. Eleven years after the 1874 Mounties arrived it was burned during the North-West Rebellion.

Photograph depicts Little Fox, Cree Chief.

Photograph depicts unidentified Aboriginal people making a birch bark canoe.

Photograph depicts unidentified prairie settlers sitting in front of log house.

Photograph depicts bull train getting ready to transport supplies from Fort Benton; the Missouri River is in the background. Ox teams' destination likely Fort Walsh or Fort Mcleod in the North West Territories.

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.

Photograph depicts the first land office in Winnipeg. Opened in 1873 it was known as the "best house" in Winnipeg. Constructed of squared logs with clap board covering. The men in the photo were Land Department employees. The Land Department was located on the first story and the surveyor's offices were on the second story. The stack of bricks in the foreground served as a vault.

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.

Photogarph depicts a portrait of Louis Riel. This portrait was made in a studio in Ottawa after Riel's election as Member of Parliament for the riding of Provencher, Manitoba, 1873.

Photograph depicts J.L. Reid, Dominion Land Surveryor, arriving in Winnipeg.

Photograph depicts a portion of Main Street, Winnipgeg. H.D. Lumsden commented on photo as follows: "The label on the photograph is Gary Street, May 1873, but it is not Garry Street, it is a portion of what is now Main Street, Winnipeg at that date."

Stereocard depicts a church in St. Boniface, undentified buildings in background.

Photograph depicts an ox-cart in Winnipeg. Pearce described the photograph as "a fair representation of a oxen and cart in the early seventies."

Photograph depicts settler's house opposite the head of St. Andrew's Rapids.

Photograph depicts Fort Walsh. Built by the North West Mounted Police in 1875 as part of the Dominion of Canada's program to establish sovereignty in the North West Territories. With the coming of the railway, the signing of treaties and the return of the Lakota to the United States, Fort Walsh was dismantled in 1883.

Photograph depicts officers quarters' at Lower Fort Garry.

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.

Photograph depicts a street scene in Winnipeg. The building in the right foreground, "Archibald Wright," is now the Union Bank. The view is looking south with the bend in the distance indicating Portage Avenue.

Photograph depicts a Winnipeg street scene. On the left is James H. Ashdown's store and wholesale hardware warehouse built between 1878-1879. .

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.

Photo depicts two York boats with crews on the Slave River.

Photograph depicts lower Fort Garry, popluarly known as "The Stone Fort," built in 1831 by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Photograph depicts freighter originally known as the "Chief Commissioner" on the banks of the Red River seven miles below Ft. Garry. The first steamboat built to navigate the Lower Red River and a portion of Lake Winnipeg.

Denis assures Pearce that the Board of Examiners of Surveyors will meet with quorum in Winnipeg to approve his bona fide surveyor's certification.

Photo depicts small boat at Fort Simpson, N.W.T. coming back from a goose hunt.

Photo depicts small boat at Fort Simpson, N.W.T. coming back from a goose hunt.

Photo depicts the "Wrigley" No. 1 in winter quarters.

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.

Photograph depicts town of St. Boniface from the west side of the Red River.

Photo depicts the "S.S. Wrigley"

Photo depicts the "Wrigley" No. 1 in winter quarters.

Photo depicts the "S.S. Wrigley"

Photograph depicts Nick Sharon, proprietor and developer, standing in front of the entrance to his mine; described by H.D. Lumsden as the first mine in Alberta.

Photograph depicts the North West Mounted Police post at Calgary with the Bow River running alongside.

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.

Photograph depicts a view of Fort Walsh and the future location of Medecine Hat prior to the construction of the railway. An 'X' has been placed to indicate the future location of the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge on the South Saskatechewan river.

Photograph depicts a scene at the future location of Medicine Hat; probably taken in the winter of 1882-1883; the C.P.R. did not reach this point until June 1883.

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.

Photograph depicts a view of Fort Walsh, future location of Medicine Hat, showing an ice flow caused by a Chinook during the winter of 1882-83.

Photograph depicts Big Bear's camp at Maple Creek.

Photo depicts The Baroness on the South Saskatchewan River in Medicine Hat. The boat was built to haul coal between Medicine Hat and the Coal Banks, now Lethbridge.

Photograph depicts ferry crossing Belly River on the trail between Lethbridge and Macleod, Alberta. The building across the river forms part of the Sharon Mine.

Photo depicts the sternwheeler "Grahame," the first steamer on the Athabasca River, 1883-1893.

Photograph depicts a workers' camp on the construction site of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

Photo depicts the sternwheeler "Grahame," the first steamer on the Athabasca River, 1883-1893.

Photo depicts a mill located on Mill Creek, a branch of Old Man River. Acquired from D.B. Dowling, representing the Geological Survey, Department of Mines. Sawmill erected and operated by Senator Maclaren. This was the first sawmill constructed and operated in Southern Alberta.

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.

Photograph depicts a view of a mine opening just south of Stair Station of the Canadian Pacific Railway on the south bank of the Saskatchewan River. This mine commenced to ship coal in September 1883. The output was shipped to Winnipeg, but proved a loss owing to deterioration in quality.

Geological Survey photo. This mine opened just south of Stair Station on the CPR line near the south bank of the Saskatchewan River. The mine began shipping coal in 1883 to Winnipeg. This venture proved a loss due to poor quality. Pearce acquired this photograph to illustrate his "Historical Narrative" of development of the Canadian West. He collected photos as he wrote his narrative between 1917 and 1928.

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.

Unidenitified Aboriginal people near Maple Creek.