R. Blake Brown - Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada

This book, like all others, has resulted from the skill, hard work, and insight of many people.

The editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, Jim Phillips, backed this project from its inception and offered extremely valuable advice on its themes, structure, and content. Marilyn MacFarlane handled all of the administrative issues that arose. The talented staff of the University of Toronto Press greatly improved the manuscript. Special thanks to Len Husband and Wayne Herrington at the Press, and copy editor Ian MacKenzie. Sandra Barry assisted in the preparation of the index.

Several people commented on the manuscript, or parts thereof. The blind reviewers enlisted by the Osgoode Society asked many penetrating questions. Donald Fyson read a version of , and Bill MacFarlane offered a gun-owners take. In addition, undergraduate students in my 2011 seminar class at Saint Marys University, Guns, Violence, and the Law, offered comments on several chapters.

Funding support from several organizations allowed for the timely completion of this book. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council provided a substantial grant. The Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America (Fulbright Canada) awarded me a Visiting Research Chair at Vanderbilt University in 2008. Fulbright granted extra travel funds to locate a place for my family to stay in Nashville. Joel Harrington, Vanderbilts assistant provost for international affairs, quickly solved every dilemma I faced in Nashville, from locating housing to solving emergency child care issues. Esther Enns, dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Kevin Vessey, dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Saint Marys University, proved strong supporters of this work. Saint Marys University awarded an Internal Research Grant for New Faculty and an Internal Research Grant for Established Faculty to complete parts of the necessary research. I also owe thanks to my colleagues in the Department of History who supported my request to take an unpaid leave of absence to take up the Fulbright chair.

The research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Saint Marys allowed me to employ several research assistants without whose assistance this project would remain far from completed. Thanks to Saint Marys undergraduate students David Reynolds, Joana Galante, Angela Kinsman, Julie Reynolds, Lisa McNiven, Michael Hughes; Saint Marys graduate students Daryl Leeworthy, Tammy Morgan, and Harris Ford; and law students from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University: Jan Jensen, Kate Saldanha, and Susanna Ashley.

Many organizations and businesses kindly granted permission for me to reproduce images, including the Nova Scotia Museum, Library and Archives Canada, the Glenbow Museum, the City of Toronto Archives, Savage Arms, the Royal British Columbia Museum, Sears Canada, Uluschak Creative Concepts, the Canadian Wildlife Federation, the Orangeville Citizen, the Winnipeg Free Press, Sun Media, the Globe and Mail, and the Canadian Press.

Thanks also to the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Review for permitting me to republish material that first appeared on their pages.

I owe both thanks to my wife, Jennifer Llewellyn, for talking through ideas presented in this book, and apologies for my tendency to write late into the night, edit manuscripts on camping trips, talk to research assistants when on vacation, and be grumpy when work proceeds too slowly. Finally, my two young sons, Owen and Elliott, consistently remind me that there are more important things in life than the number of publications on ones resume.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE OSGOODE SOCIETY FOR CANADIAN LEGAL HISTORY

2012 R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada

Eric Tucker, James Muir, and Bruce Ziff, eds., Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context

Shelley Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 18701905

Barrington Walker, ed., The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays

2011 Robert J. Sharpe, The Lazier Murder: Prince Edward County, 1884

Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax

John McLaren, Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered: British Colonial Judges on Trial, 18001900

Lesley Erickson, Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society

2010 Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker, eds., Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles

Christopher Moore, The British Columbia Court of Appeal: The First Hundred Years

Frederick Vaughan, Viscount Haldane: The Wicked Step-father of the Canadian Constitution

Barrington Walker, Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontarios Criminal Courts, 18581958

2009 William Kaplan, Canadian Maverick: The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand

R. Blake Brown, A Trying Question: The Jury in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Barry Wright and Susan Binnie, eds., Canadian State Trials, Volume III: Political Trials and Security Measures, 18401914