150 years – and then some – of Canadian law: A fateful meeting in Charlottetown

To mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation LexisNexis Canada commissioned Hill Times’ columnist Arthur Milnes of Kingston to research and co-edit—with academic and legal scholar Heather MacIvor—the prestigious coffee table-style book Canada at 150: Building a Free and Democratic Society, which has just been released.
With the question of European colonial ownership settled on a bluff overlooking the St. Lawrence at Quebec in 1759, an uneasy détente was foisted upon the French and British citizens in what would someday become Canada. And as the 18th century receded into history had to learn how to get...

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