Mr Attorney
In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown''s chief legal counsel; by the mid-nineteenth century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier. Mr Attorney is the story of this transformation and many other aspects of the attorney general''s role in nineteenth-century Ontario.
A central figure in the story general''s rise wa...
In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown''s chief legal counsel; by the mid-nineteenth century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier. Mr Attorney is the story of this transformation and many other aspects of the attorney general''s role in nineteenth-century Ontario.
A central figure in the story general''s rise wa...
