{"id":2787,"date":"2010-08-28T06:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T06:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2010-08-28T06:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T06:45:29","slug":"2787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2010\/08\/28\/2787\/","title":{"rendered":"Vagrancy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading a paper on the history of prostitution in the West End which referred to a Canadian Vagrancy Law that was dissolved only in 1972. I became intrigued and tried to hunt the details of the law which was introduced in 1892. It took me a while but finally found this part of the criminal code: the language was quite something to behold&#8230;. especially its insistence on gainful employment, with no nod to employment being tied to economic situations, employment being seen moreover as a state of mind and decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>207. Every one is a loose, idle or disorderly person or vagrant who<\/p>\n<p>(a) Not having any visible means of maintaining himself lives without employment<\/p>\n<p>(b) being able to work and thereby, or by other means to maintain himself and family willfully refuses or neglects to do so; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(d) without a certificate&#8230;wanders about and begs, or goes about from door to door, or places himself in any street, highway, passage or public place to beg or receive alms;<\/p>\n<p>(e) loiters on any street, road, highway or public place and obstructs passengers by standing across the footpath or by using insulting language, or in any other way; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Canada, 55-56 Vict, c.29, s.207)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading a paper on the history of prostitution in the West End which referred to a Canadian Vagrancy Law that was dissolved only in 1972. I became intrigued and tried to hunt the details of the law which was introduced in 1892. It took me a while but finally found this part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}