Law West of the Bay
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by J.W. McClung
From 1670 to 1869 the maintenance of a system of laws and administration lay upon the Hudson’s Bay Company. It was part of the Company’s Rupertsland responsibilities.
By today’s standards the HBC legal system was crude and undisciplined as it was geared mainly to the preservation of the Company’s commercial interests. Crime (and those who saw private profit in it) as well as gratuitous violence was not hard to find because there was little law enforcement in the Canadian West until 1873 when the North West Mounted Police arrived.
This book relates vignettes about HBC law and 19th century crime along the Saskatchewan River watershed. Tales about some distinctive members of the early Edmonton legal community are also told.
