Raw Life: Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book Book

Preface: Common Humanity / R. Roy McMurtry

Foreword: A Timeless Bond / Edward L. Greenspan

Introduction: Secrets / J. Patrick Boyer 

Theme of the drama: Justice, and the small change of history 

P A R T    O N E: Setting the stage

1.      The Off-Broadway Production: Casting for James Boyer

2.      The Set: Establishing a Muskoka Venue

3.      The People: Making Up Muskokans

4.      The Court: Canadian JPs by Late Nineteenth Century

5.      The Larger Cast: JPs Aplenty in the Wings

6.      The Constabulary: Producers of Police Court Drama

7.      The Punishments: Common Gaol, Fines, and Social Ignominy

8.      The Stage: Magistrate’s Court in 1890s Bracebridge

9.      The Script: Magistrate Boyer’s Bench Book 

P A R T   T W O: The Dramas, in 27 Acts with Numerous Scenes

1.      A constable’s unhappy lot

2.      Provocation

3.      Contending with disease

4.      Property fights and property rights

5.      Raw neighbourly relations

6.      Women’s fears and women’s fates

7.      Hard love for the indigent

8.      Unsanitary conditions and public health fevers

9.      Livestock and deadstock

10.    A dog’s life

11.    Worse for the liquor

12.    Assault, battery, and plain fighting

13.    Early road rage

14.    Ill-gotten game

15.    Boys’ doings

16.    Pressures on the sex trade

17.    Bartering for work, fighting for wages

18.    The high price of stolen goods

19.    Religious fervour at ground level

20.    Powers of the spoken word

21.    Saving the Sabbath

22.    Unlicensed and illicit conduct

23.    Life around the lakes

24.    Down by the station

25.    Fence wars

26.    Contested logs 

P A R T   T H R E E: Curtain down, curtain up again

1.      New players, same old scripts?

2.      Adding up the small change of history

3.       The fate of James and Hannah Boyer 

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