TY - BOOK ID - 78490447 TI - Law, life, and government at Red River. AU - Gibson, Dale AU - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History PY - 2015 SN - 0773597077 9780773597075 0773545638 9780773545632 9780773545632 PB - Montreal Kingston Toronto DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Courts KW - Community life KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Human ecology KW - Judiciary KW - Dispute resolution (Law) KW - Judicial districts KW - Procedure (Law) KW - Judicial power KW - Jurisdiction KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Red River Settlement KW - Etablissement de la rivière Rouge KW - Red River Colony KW - Selkirk's Red River Settlement KW - Assiniboia (District) KW - Politics and government. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78490447 AB - Inhabited by a diverse population of First Nations peoples, Métis, Scots, Upper and Lower Canadians, and Americans, and dominated by the commercial and governmental activities of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Red River – now Winnipeg – was a challenging settlement to oversee. This illuminating account presents the story of the unique legal and governmental system that attempted to do so and the mixed success it encountered, culminating in the 1869–70 Red River Rebellion and confederation with Canada in 1870. In Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Dale Gibson provides rich, revealing glimpses into the community, and its complex relations with the Hudson’s Bay: the colony’s owner, and primary employer. Volume 2 provides a complete annotated, and never-before-published transcription of testimony from Red River’s courts, presenting hundreds of vignettes of frontier life, the cases that were brought before the courts, and the ways in which the courts resolved conflicts. A vivid look into early settler life, Law, Life, and Government at Red River offers insights into the political, commercial, and legal circumstances that unfolded during western expansion. ER -