The Day Of Sir Wilfred Laurier
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Author | : Oscar Douglas Skelton |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
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"The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time" is a historical and biographical novel of the Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure remains the longest unbroken term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Laurier is best known for his compromises between English and French Canada. The main emphasis of the book is to look more at the significant events in Canada during his time in office, rather than a more personalized biography.
Author | : Sir Wilfrid Laurier |
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Release | : 2017-10 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780771059797 |
Author | : Oscar Douglas Skelton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Oscar D. Skelton |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2021-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
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The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier retells the chronicles of a successful man in politics living in Quebec in the 1800s. You will enjoy this humble and comprehensive snapshot of Canadian history. Contents: The Making of a Canadian, Politics in the Sixties, First Years in Parliament, In Opposition, 1878-1887, Leader of the Opposition.
Author | : Oscar Douglas Skelton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : George McKinnon Wrong |
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Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Roy MacSkimming |
Publisher | : Dundurn.com |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2010-08-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0887628397 |
From the author of Macdonald, comes a new novel about an extraordinary love triangle set at the apex of Canada’s national life at the dawn of the twentieth century. A deeply absorbing novel of passion and politics, Laurier in Love reveals a side of Sir Wilfrid Laurier as Canadians have never known him: romantic and idealistic, inspiring and seductive, yet conflicted and compromised, as he balances his time between his wife and his mistress. Elegant, silver-tongued Sir Wilfrid Laurier is just beginning his fabled career as one of the nation’s greatest leaders. Some Canadians revile him simply because he is French-Canadian and Roman Catholic, the first Prime Minister from Quebec. Keenly aware of the difficulties lying ahead, Laurier tells his devoted wife, Zoë Laurier, how much he needs her. At the same time, he assures his ambitious, literary lover, Émilie Lavergne, that she too is indispensable to him. Through the eyes of these two fascinating women, we see Laurier the orator, charming Americans in Chicago; Laurier the statesman, starring at Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee celebrations in London; Laurier the conciliator, walking the perilous line between demands of English and French as Canada fights her first foreign war in distant South Africa. The cast of characters includes the aging monarch, the doomed President McKinley, a young Winston Churchill, an even younger Mackenzie King. Both epic and intimate in scale, Laurier in Love gives readers the authentic sense of the man, the era, the politics and the complex personal life Laurier led behind the scenes.
Author | : Peter McArthur |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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The length of Sir Wilfrid's public career alone challenges admiration and respect. He had been almost half a century in active politics; forty-six years a salient figure in Parliament; a leader of the Liberal party for thirty years; Prime Minister for fifteen years. He saw generations of men and generations of statesmen. He saw Confederation in its cradle and watched it grow to nationhood. Since he entered public life England has had three Monarchs, while the figures of Disraeli and Gladstone, of Salisbury and Campbell-Bannerman have passed across its national stage. He witnessed the rise of Cavour and saw the sword of Garibaldi flash, and he sympathized with their aspirations for an United Italy. He saw the German States confederated by Bismarck into blood and iron, saw France, his Motherland, crushed and bleeding at the feet of the Teuton conqueror, and lived to see the structure which Bismarck reared crumbled into utter dust. Since he entered public life, Russia has had two Emperors, emancipated its slaves, fought three great wars, overthrown the House of Czars and plunged into anarchy and ruin.
Author | : Oscar Skelton |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1965-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773560548 |
With masterly sweep and vigorous prose, this biography, first published just two years after Laurier's death, surveys his career, especially the fifteen eventful years of his premiership. This volume covers the years 1841-1896.
Author | : Sarah Gibson |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2014-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0771057202 |
To coincide with the bicentennial of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, this is the first-ever selected collection of his most important and defining speeches. Published in collaboration with The Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Commission, and endorsed by all of our living Prime Ministers, this is a beautifully produced book that deserves to be in all Canadian homes, schools, and libraries. The Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Commission set out several years ago to collect, annotate, and footnote all of our first Prime Minister's speeches. Rather shockingly, this had not been done before; the speeches of even the most minor of US presidents are available in print and e-book form. Obviously, such a collection is a must for libraries and educational institutions across the country as a matter of historical record, but the speeches also make for great reading. His words have a Churchillian feel to them -- direct, decisive, visionary, and very often funny. Sir John A. is marvellously quotable, and through these speeches you understand how our country was formed, what its challenges were and often continue to be, and why our first PM was perhaps the best we'll ever have.