InLawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963, noted lawyer and historian, Ian Kyer, provides a superbly researched and fascinating study of the origins and development of the law firm now known as Fasken Martineau DuMoulin. Beginning in colonial Toronto in 1863 where two young lawyers, William Henry Beatty and Edward Marion Chadwick, established their partnership in "one room, half furnished," Kyer follows the first 100 years of mergers, redirections, challenges, and advances that today have resulted in an international firm of over 700 lawyers practising on three continents. In the process of giving readers a view of the evolution of the practice of law in Canada as seen from the perspective of one particular firm, Kyer also provides in-depth and original accounts of the interrelationships among law firms, family connections, business development, and political influence in Canadian history. This is neither a dry academic work nor a self-congratulatory firm history. It is an insightful, compelling, social history of one of Canada's most important law firms.
Between 1891 and 1921, the Toronto Railway Company operated Toronto's streetcars under a franchise granted by the City. The arrangement brought the City a modern electric streetcar system, but the relationship between the two entities was a tempestuous one, marked and marred by almost constant conflict and confrontation. Remarkably, the many court battles that resulted went to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on fourteen separate occasions. This book details these legal disputes, and along the way, links them to the city's expansion and development, its municipal politics, the provincial debates over public ownership of many kinds of utilities, and the legal culture of the day, which reveals a remarkable faith in the courts. This is a fascinating historical story set in its own time and milieu, but which also has considerable contemporary relevance as Toronto -- and Canada's other major urban centres -- wrestle with their modern transportation problems. It will be of interest not only to legal historians, but also to those interested in transit and municipal history, and in the correct balance between public and private ownership. -- The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, or CDIC as it is widely known, may be only fifty years old, but it has faced numerous challenges, been much studied, and been through many transformations. It has been an eventful fifty years. Today "the deposit protection system has become a well-established component of prudential bank regulation," but it was not always so. CDIC's mandate and even its existence have been the subject of much debate. It has regularly been the object of criticism, and its mandate and powers have been regularly rethought. It was created amidst controversy and federal provincial wrangling in 1967, much tested in the financial crises of the early 1980s, intensely studied in the mid-1980s, significantly reshaped in the late 1980s, and tested again by the financial failures of the early 1990s, following which, it was once again critically scrutinized and reshaped"--Introduction, p. 1.
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