Raw Life

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ISBN: 9780978160043 | 0978160045
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/24/2012

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This book presents the reality of Canadian conditions through several hundred cameo dramas that unfolded in a magistrate's court more tha a centure ago.

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Message to Readers: Common Humanity by R. Roy McMurtry	p. 9
Foreword: The Unique Aftertaste of History by Edward L. Greenspan	p. 13
Prelude	p. 17
Theme of the Drama: Justice, and the Small Change of History	p. 19
Setting the Stage	p. 23
The Venue: From Dirt Floors to the Gay Nineties	p. 25
The Court: Canadian JPs by the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 61
The Stage: Magistrate's Court in 1890s Bracebridge	p. 81
The Constabulary: Producers of Police Court Drama	p. 96
The Punishments: Common Gaol, Fines, and Social Ignominy	p. 106
The Script: Magistrate Boyer's Bench Book	p. 123
The Dramas, in Twenty-Six Acts with Numerous Scenes	p. 141
A Constable's Unhappy Lot	p. 143
Provocation	p. 149
Contending with Disease	p. 152
Property Fights and Property Rights	p. 163
Raw Neighbourly Relations	p. 172
Women's Fears and Women's Fates	p. 181
Hard Love for the Indigent	p. 210
Unsanitary Conditions and Public Health Fevers	p. 219
Livestock and Deadstock	p. 239
A Dog's Life	p. 251
Worse for the Liquor	p. 269
Assault, Battery, and Plain Fighting	p. 290
Early Road Rage	p. 313
Ill-Gotten Game	p. 332
Boys' Doings	p. 365
Pressures on the Sex Trade	p. 397
Bartering for Work, Fighting for Wages	p. 408
The High Price of Stolen Goods	p. 475
Religious Fervour at Ground Level	p. 483
Powers of the Spoken Word	p. 493
Saving the Sabbath	p. 500
Unlicensed and Illicit Conduct	p. 506
Life Around the Lakes	p. 513
Down by the Station	p. 533
Fence Wars	p. 542
Contested Logs	p. 566
Curtain Down, Curtain Up Again	p. 575
New Players, Same Old Scripts?	p. 577
Adding Up the Small Change of History	p. 595
Acknowledgements	p. 606
About the Author	p. 609
Bibliography	p. 611
Index	p. 615
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