Domestic ReformsDomestic Reforms tells a complicated story of family andwelfare law reform within the context of British Columbiastransformation from a British colonial enclave to a white settlerCanadian province. It inherited a British legal system that grantedmarried men control over most family property and imposed fewobligations on them toward their wives and children. Yet from the 1860sonward, lawmakers throughout the Anglo American world, includinglegislators