When Sir Robert Bond addressed Newfoundland’s House of Assembly in April 1904 to announce that, as part of the diplomatic arrangements signed between the United Kingdom and France, the French Shore Question had been resolved, he assured his listeners that this issue had long been a thorny cause of irritation…so opens Olaf U. Janzen’s contribution to this collection of essays in celebration of the official opening of the Corner Brook Consolidated Courthouse on 3 May, 2010. Contributing authors include: Christopher English, Michael Wilkshire, James K. Hiller, Christopher Curran and Melvin Baker, and Chief Justice Clyde K. Wells.  B & W and full colour illustrations throughout.