Professor Emeritus Hamar Foster, QC published an article in Sunday’s Times Colonist on the controversial Matthew Begbie, the colony of British Columbia’s first judge and the province of British Columbia’s first chief justice.
You can read Professor Foster’s article, Was Matthew Begbie really a ‘hanging judge’? on the Times Colonist website.
Professor Foster will be giving a talk on Matthew Begbie this evening (September 5) as part of the UVic’s History Department’s four part series Controversial Characters in Context. The talk will take place from 7:00 – 8:30 pm in the Council Chambers at City Hall Details of the event can be found on the UVic events calendar.
Below is a small selection of Professor Foster’s other publications on the legal history of British Columbia available through the library:
“For the Better Administration of Justice: The British Columbia Court of Appeal, 1910-2010” (2009) 162 BC Studies, pp 5-24 (co-edited by John McLaren and Wes Pue).
“‘We Want a Strong Promise’: The Opposition to Indian Treaties in British Columbia, 1850-1990,” (2009) 18 Native Studies Review, pp 113-137.
The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and the University of British Columbia Press, 2008), (co-edited with Andrew Buck and Benjamin Berger). Call number: KD5020 G72 2008
“We Are Not O’Meara’s Children: Law, Lawyers and the First Campaign for Aboriginal Title in British Columbia, 1908-1928” in Hamar Foster, Heather Raven and Jeremy Webber, eds, Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case and the Future of Indigenous Rights (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), pp 61-84. Call number: KE7715 L47 2007
“Honouring the Queen’s Flag: A Legal and Historical Perspective on the Nisga’a Treaty” (1998) 120 BC Studies, pp 11-36.
“British Columbia: Legal Institutions in the Far West, from Contact to 1871″ (1995) 23 Manitoba Law Journal, pp 293-340.
“Hard Choices and Sharp Edges: The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon” in Hamar Foster and John McLaren, eds, Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VI: British Columbia and the Yukon (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society for Legal History, 1995) pp 3-27 (co-authored with John McLaren). Call number: KF345 E8
“The Saanichton Bay Marina Case: Imperial Law, Colonial History and Competing Theories of Aboriginal Title” (1989) 23 University of British Columbia Law Review, pp 629-650.
“The Struggle for the Supreme Court: Law and Politics in British Columbia 1871-1885” in Knafla, Louis A, ed, Law and Justice in a New Land: Essays in Western Canadian Legal History (Toronto: Carswell, 1986), pp 167-213.
Call number: KF345 L388 1984