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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 |