In the Shadow of the Law: Divorce in Canada 1900-1939
ISBN: 9781442676060
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Divorce -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Divorce -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- 20th century;

These 'pioneer' divorces led the way in creating a modern Canadian divorce system, based on consensual dissolution of marriage and relying on the courts less for arbitration between contending parties than for endorsement of a privately determined pact.


Snell James G. :

James G. Snell is Professor of History at the University of Guelph.

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