This paper examines how Canadian law and lawyers were portrayed in
American legal periodicals between the years 1829 and 1911. Part I
introduces the subject by briefly describing the history and operation
of American legal periodicals in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Parts II, III and IV review the history and principal
themes of the American journals' coverage of Canadian legal affairs,
focusing on the periods 1829-1879, 1880-1895, and 1896-1911
respectively. In the Conclusion of the article the author offers some
observations on the historical significance of that coverage,
considered as a chronological whole.
A draft of this paper is available upon
request.
