 | Mr Attorney: The Attorney General for Ontario in Court, Cabinet, and Legislature 1791–1899 Subjects: Attorneys-general -- Ontario -- History; Justice Administration of -- Ontario -- History; Ontario -- Constitutional history; Ontario -- Politics and government -- 19th century; In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown's chief legal counsel; by the mid-19th century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier. Mr Attorney is the story of this transformation and many other aspects of the attorney general's role in 19th-century Ontario. Romney Paul : Paul Romney has been writing on Canadian history for thirty years. |
