| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Donald Fyson. Magistrates, Police, and People: Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764–1837. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 2006. Pp. xvi, 467. $65.00.

At first sight, a book thus titled might not seem to be a powerful vehicle for challenging generations of entrenched Quebec historiography. Donald Fyson has succeeded, however, both in writing an excellent account of the workings of criminal justice in post-Conquest Quebec and in presenting a credible alternative interpretation of the nature and impact of the English criminal justice system brought to Quebec by the British. He does this by focusing on what he calls "everyday" criminal justice, by which he means "routine" or "ordinary" contact between the people and the justice system carried out at its lowest levels by local justices of the peace and their police.

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