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This is a photograph of the first page of the Order-in-Council that recommended the establishment of the North-West Mounted Police (which would later become the RCMP). The recommendation was made by the Minister of Justice, and was approved two days…

Lecture by Professor James L. Wilkins presented on February 11th, 1970.

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In February 2008, during a regular NHL season game, Marty McSorley struck Donald Brashear with his hockey stick with enough force to give Brashear a serious concussion. McSorley was later charged with Assault with a Weapon pursuant to s. 267(a) of…

A reprint from the Petersburgian magazine, 'Dzvin', of a short overview of the current Russian political situation by Pyotr Krasnov, the General of the Cossack division in the Imperial Russian Army.

These files contain excerpts from Connolly v. Woolrich et al. , an important 1867 case. This case considered the legality of a marriage between a man employed by the Hudson Bay and an indigenous woman. The wedding was not performed by a priest, but…

prepared for the 5th International Meeting of Forensic Sciences

" A refrigerated van was hired to haul away the 48 crates of frozen theses"

"the crates are loaded into a large vacuum chamber normally used to train flight crews for high altitude conditions"

"the clock records the "up" time on a paper disc, as Sgt Handy reviews the contents through a 1-inch thick window of bullet proof glass"

"On Tuesday morning, 22 February, the racks were removed and the books rearranged on the floor of the chamber"

"As the week wore on and many volumes stubbornly refused to dry, they were hung from coat-hangers to promote air circulation"

"As the week wore on and many volumes stubbornly refused to dry, they were hung from coat-hangers to promote air circulation"

" The use of the chamber is not only charged for on an hourly basis, but available only at the sufferance of the Canadian Forces, who usually have other tasks to put it to; as as the week wore on Wayne Finlay, Emrys Evans, and Ray Mattadeen showed …

"in the end a few still-damp volumes were taken back to the University of Toronto to complete the drying"

"By midnight Sunday 600 crates of dry or partly damp books lined the corridors of the Galbraith bldg"

"1,000 crates of books are dollied into 'a' storey"

"the third floor viewed from the inside"

"Saturated books were initially abandoned so that priority could be given to the dry and merely damp... freezing temperatures returned Monday, and the saturated books froze to the shelves."

"Many of the seriously wet books must be abandoned"

"Exterior wall of Sanford Fleming bldg, north side; the third floor roof, directly above the Engineering Library, burned out and collapsed"