Preface
Notes on Contributors
Maps
Introduction
Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See
Section I: Loyalty, Liberty, and Visions of Order
1. Aspirations and Limitations: "Peace, Order, and Good Government" and the Language of Violence and Disorder in British North America
Scott W. See
2. Loyalty, Order, and Quebec’s Catholic Hierarchy, 1763–1867
D.C. Bélanger
3. Anxious Anglicans, Complicated Catholics, and Disruptive Dissenters: Christianity and the Search for Social Order in the Age of Revolution
Denis McKim
4. Liberty, Loyalty, and Sentiment in Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864–1873
Jerry Bannister
Section II: From Tory Imperialism to Liberal Settler Colonialism
5. Revolution Expected: The Invasion of Quebec and American Independence
Jeffers Lennox
6. Empire, Settler Colonialism, and the Role of Violence in Indigenous Dispossession in British North America, 1749–1830
John G. Reid
7. Space, Race, and Violence: The Beginnings of Civilization in Canada
E.A. Heaman
8. Worthy and Industrious or a Burden? Managing Migration in Upper Canada, 1815–1845
Section III: Resisting Dispossession
9. Searching for Order in a Settlers’ World: Wendat and Mississauga Schooling, Politics and Networks at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Thomas Peace
10. Runaway Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary Study
Harvey Amani Whitfield
11. The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny
12. "We are men not Buffalos": Louis Riel and the Gendering of the Red River Public Sphere
M. Max Hamon
Section IV: Legitimating and Contesting the Public Sphere
13. Discontents and Dissidents: Unrest amongst Loyalist Freemasons in the 1780s and 90s
Bonnie Huskins
14. Of Bludgeons and Ballots: Political Violence, Municipal Enfranchisement, and Local Governance in Mid-Nineteenth- Century Montreal
Colin Grittner
15. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder in a Mid-Victorian City
Ian Radforth
16. "To muse within these peaceful portals": Urban Space, Public Order, and the Makings of Montreal’s Viger Square, 1818–1870
Dan Horner
Section V: Tools of Social Order: The Law and the Press
17. The Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759–1872
Donald Fyson
18. Making a Patriot Order: Violence, Respectability, and the Patriot Press in Exile, 1838–1847
Stephen R.I. Smith
19. The Ambivalence of Order: Jurisdiction in the Disputed Northeast
Bradley Miller
20. For the Better Administration of the Town’s Affairs: Civic Engagement, Local Governance, and Grassroots Activism in Canada West/Ontario, 1849–1870
Darren Ferry
21. The Role of Newspapers in Halifax during the Confederate and the Repeal Movements, 1865–69
Mathias Rodorff
Epilogue
Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See
