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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
 | | He resigned from the Supreme Court on 10 October and was sworn in as lieutenant governor on the 31st. | | | Laurier, who was highly regarded in Great Britain, received the authority to send two ministers — William Stevens Fielding, minister of finance, and Brodeur were chosen — to hold discussions with the two countries, on condition that the final agreement be countersigned by the British ambassador. | | | This newspaper was intended to be the organ of the federal Liberal leader, Laurier, in opposition to La Patrie, the radical Liberal paper of Honoré Beaugrand*. |
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Laurier was recognized as the undisputed, indeed indisputable, leader of all the country’s Liberals. | | | Laurier had to intervene in order to clarify both the position of his party and his definition of the nation that was to be built. | | | Laurier’s major speeches and particulars of the incidents and circumstances that marked his political life can be found in the Debates and Journals of the Quebec Legislative Assembly, the Debates of the House of Commons and Senate, the Canadian census returns, and the electoral returns for the Quebec Legislative Assembly and the House of Commons. |
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| | Liberal-Labour (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Patrick Reid was elected "Liberal-Labour" MPP for the neighbouring riding of Rainy River in the 1967 provincial election He ran as a "Liberal" in the 1971 provincial election, and 1975 provincial election. | | | The decision by the Liberals, CIO members and Communists to collaborate was ironic given Hepburn's vociferous opposition to both Communism and the Congress of Industrial Organizations during his term as Premier of Ontario. | | | Benidickson was succeeded in that riding by John Mercer Reid, who was elected as a "Liberal" in 1966 but then sat as a "Liberal-Labour" MP from the 1968 federal election until the 1972 federal election, when he changed his desigation back to "Liberal". |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search View - Robert Borden |
| | Laurier, the leader of the Liberal Party, felt that he could not join a government that had offended his French-Canadian compatriots. | | | Laurier's Naval Service Act of 1910 also harmed the Liberals in the new election. | | | Prime Minister Laurier had proposed to follow the system in Ontario, where the provincial government supported Protestant schools but allowed separate Roman Catholic schools which were supported by local taxes. |
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| | Quebecers, the Roman Catholic Church and the Manitoba School Question: A Chronology - Quebec History |
| | The House of Commons assented to a motion by Edward Blake, former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, which mandated that all cases of disputes on education be sent to the judiciary for decision. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada handed its decision in the Brophy case. | | | The liberal newspaper, L'Électeur, edited by Laurier's friend, Ernest Pacaud, argued that even if all of the bishops approved of the Remedial Act, the politicians, the press and the electors would still have the right to oppose it. |
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| | Inside of canada and Korea!: change could be different |
| | Laurier's mother, Marcelle Martineau Laurier, died when he was four, and he was raised by his stepmother. | | | Laurier was never question, but several minister were forced to resign. | | | The Liberals ended up winning a minority of seats and another term in office, but, as the average length of a minority government in Canada is 18 months, Paul Martin's long term future will depend on his ability to push his agenda through a "wheeling and dealing" House of Commons. |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Liberal Party of Canada |
| | It was not until Wilfrid Laurier became leader that the Liberal Party emerged as a modern party. | | | After the King-Byng Affair of 1926, the Liberals argued that the Governor General of Canada should no longer be appointed on the recommendation of the British government. | | | It continues to be damaging to the party and serves as a threat to the Liberal's prospects of forming the government after the next federal election. |
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| | The Right Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier |
| | Laurier had served for 45 years in the House of Commons prior to his death. | | | In the early morning of July 29, 1910, Laurier arrived in Saskatoon where he was to lay the cornerstone for the University of Saskatchewan. | | | Succeeded Edward Blake (resigned) as Liberal Party Leader, 1887-1919. |
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| | CBC News:Liberal senators fall into line behind PM |
| | Liberal senators Laurier LaPierre and Sharon Carstairs told a news conference in Ottawa on Monday that 51 of their colleagues had promised to support the leader in upcoming votes. | | | OTTAWA - If general support for the prime minister were analogous to his support among Liberal senators, Jean Chrétien's leadership would be secure. | | | CBC News:Liberal senators fall into line behind PM Liberal senators fall into line behind PM |
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| | rbc.com - RBC Financial Group - Royal Bank Letter |
| | Laurier had to back down on a promise that the provinces would have separate Catholic schools when it became clear to him that it would only add to religious intolerance if the federal government tried to enforce its will on the majority of provincial voters. | | | In the election that ensued, Laurier said he saw no hope of the Federal authority running the educational system in Manitoba. | | | He had to use all his skills as a statesman to prevent the major linguistic groups from flying at each other's throats. |
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| | Wilfrid Laurier |
| | In 1896 Laurier became Canada's prime minister, the first French Canadian and the first Roman Catholic, to hold this office. | | | He became a lawyer and in 1874 was elected to the Ottawa parliament. | | | His good relationship with the British government was reinforced by his decision to send Canadian troops to help Britain during the Boer War. |
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| | Arthur Roebuck: Information From Answers.com |
| | Re-entering federal politics, Roebuck was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Trinity in the 1940 federal election. | | | Roebuck ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1917 federal election as a Laurier Liberal, but was defeated. | | | In 1945, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and remained in the Upper House until his death. |
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| | How to join the Laurier Club without even trying |
| | The meeting was about to begin and there were no free seats, except one at the front between Marc Lalonde (former Trudeau cabinet minister) and Jean Chrétien, the Liberal Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition. | | | The Underside of Law Practice, Politics and Teaching | | | He is presently a professor, McGill Law Faculty and Counsel to Langlois Kronström Desjardins.) |
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| | The Prime Ministers of Canada - John Diefenbaker Biography |
| | He spoke on "Canada's Future" at his high school graduation and was a star debater in university. | | | COMMENTARY: Iona V. Campagnolo, MP 1974-1979, Liberal Party National President 1982-1986. | | | Canada's first French-Canadian prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier was Liberal prime minister from 1896 to 1911. |
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| | The Orange Order and the Election of 1911 |
| | In 1910 the Quebec Superior Court upheld an annulment by the Roman Catholic Church in the case where the marriage ceremony had been performed by a Protestant minister. | | | Laurier had supported the idea of publicly funded Roman Catholic schools in Alberta and Saskatchewan | | | Ironically, it could be said of Laurier that as Orange power was a factor in electing him in 1896, it was also Orange power that played a role in his defeat in 1911. |
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| | The Prime Ministers of Canada - Charles Tupper Biography |
| | The 1896 election featured Tupper, an English-speaking, Protestant Tory fighting for francophone Catholics against Laurier, a French-speaking, Catholic Liberal, who championed provincial rights. | | | The political party with the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons | | | Canada's first French-Canadian prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier was Liberal prime minister from 1896 to 1911. |
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| | Calgary & Southern Alberta - Calgary's Politics, 1895-1946 |
| | Frank Oliver, a Liberal MP from Edmonton and cabinet minister, preferred his hometown. | | | As Minister of the Interior, Oliver likewise set provincial constituencies, which he weighed in favour of the northern half of the province. | | | The election of Wilfred Laurier’s Liberal Party in 1896 heralded the beginning of Calgary’s long history of federal political alienation. |
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| | CalgaryGrit: Back to the Beginning |
| | The Liberals didn't even stand a chance because the Conservatives were being bankrolled by a railroad monopoly which they sustained. | | | Laurier = free trade, decentralization of power, senate reform, meritocracy, independence | | | He basically ran his election campaigns using the CPR's money for almost his entire time in politics. |
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| | Search Results for Laurier - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Laurier was born of French-Canadian parents and studied at the college at l'Assomption, where he received literary training under Catholic priests. | | | As Laurier gradually rose to become minister of internal revenue (1877–78) and eventually to leadership of the opposition Liberal Party in 1887, he persistently sought to bring together his... | | | statesman and finance minister of Canada's Liberal Party; he supported free trade between the United States and Canada, in opposition to the trade protectionism of the Conservatives. |
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| | Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Sir Wilfrid Laurier Column |
| | Bourassa was Laurier's nemesis through much of his fifteen years as prime minister. | | | Author Laurier LaPierre has this to say about Bourassa in his book about his namesake: "... | | | He was denounced in Toronto as a papist stooge for his support of the Jesuit Estates Act and his reluctance to dutifully commit Canadians to the service of the British in the Boer War. |
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| | King, William Lyon Mackenzie on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Chosen in 1919 to succeed Laurier as leader of the Liberal party, Mackenzie King led the opposition in Parliament until 1921, when he became prime minister, a post he filled, except for a brief interval in 1926, until 1930. | | | An expert on labor questions, he served in Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal administration as deputy minister of labor (1900-1908) and minister of labor (1909-11) and was editor (1900-1908) of the Labour Gazette. | | | He first served in the House of Commons from 1909 to 1911, and during World War I he was engaged (1914-17) in investigating industrial relations in the United States. |
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| | The Laurier era (from Canada) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | For 15 years Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal government reflected the acquiescent politics of prosperity and progress, but it also fostered a degree of social activism inspired by the growing Progressive movement in the United States. | | | The first French Canadian to become prime minister of Canada was Wilfrid Laurier. | | | Although French was his native tongue, he became a master of English oratory. |
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| | Archive August 2, 1999 Tidbits |
| | Jean Chretien is a great admirer of Laurier, the first French-speaking prime minister, who served from 1896 to 1911 and won three consecutive majority governments. | | | The Conservatives won 29 of the 52-seat legislature, the New Democratic Party won 12 and the former ruling Liberals captured 11. | | | Wilfert, who had a similar bill on Laurier that died on the order paper, said Copps has recently assured him that she intends to declare a non-statutory holiday for Laurier on November 20, the date of his birthday. |
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| | Smoky Lake Signal |
| | Given the Conservative leanings of Alberta south and the tumultuous relationship with the Dominion government, Calgary might win it, if, in fact, the decision was left to western voters, as Laurier intended. | | | Conservative party loyalty in the election of 1904 cost the City of Calgary its bid for provincial 'capital' status. | | | Although they didn't quite admit to it, then - Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier's Liberal government slapped Calgary's Conservative hands, bestowing 'provisional' capital honours on the city to the north, Edmonton. |
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| | Laurier Liberals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Prior to the 1917 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada split into two factions: | | | Quebec Liberals and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, refused to join Borden, and ran in the resulting election as "Laurier Liberals" or Opposition (Laurier Liberal). | | | Many provincial Liberal parties in English-speaking Canada and a number of Liberal Members of Parliament supported conscription and decided to support Borden's government. |
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| | Lecture 4 - The Age of Wilfrid Laurier |
| | Liberals stood for "reciprocity" with the United States. | | | Lecture 4 - The Age of Wilfrid Laurier | | | Remained a staunch champion of small "l" liberal economic policies |
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| | Dust my Broom » Blog Archive » New Wine, Old Bottle |
| | Norway House Chief Ron Evans ran for the Liberal candidacy in 2000, and is a Liberal candidate in the Churchill riding during the current federal election. | | | Aboard the Skyward Aviation charter were Laurier Club members Sidney Garrioch, grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, and Ron Evans, chief of Norway House Cree Nation, who unsuccessfully ran for the Liberals in the federal election in the Churchill riding. | | | Martin’s party at his official residence was open only to members of the Liberal party’s Laurier Club, which requires a minimum donation of $1,000. |
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| | Red, White & True: Canada - Past Prime Ministers - Sir Robert Borden |
| | In 1896, he was first elected to Parliament and by 1901 he was leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and Leader of the Opposition against the Laurier’s Liberal Government. | | | Borden led a Union Government (many Liberals joined to form a Union Party) and Conscription was a go. | | | The former allowed the government to pretty much allocate soldiers’ votes to constituencies where they were needed while the former gave women who were members of the Armed Forces or the wives, mothers, and daughters of servicemen the right to vote and took it away from Canadian citizens of German descent. |
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| | Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's quiz.html |
| | c) To protest Laurier's decision to support the Boer War effort. | | | Laurier's compromise was to equip and transport a contingent of volunteers for the South African War. | | | a) To protest Laurier's handling of the Manitoba Schools Question. |
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| | American Review of Canadian Studies: Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant.(History)(Book Review)@ ... |
| | Ernest Lapointe (1876-1941), a Riviere-du-Loup lawyer, was first elected as a Liberal MP during the Laurier era to represent the south shore St. Lawrence riding of Kamouraska in 1904. | | | His intimate political association with King really began to take shape in 1919, subsequent to the hotly contested selection of anti-Unionist Laurier loyalist MacKenzie King to succeed Laurier as Liberal party leader by virtue of Canada's first ever leadership... | | | The above preview is from American Review of Canadian Studies, March 22, 2004. |
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| | Canadian Homosexual Activist Senator Sent Death Wish Emails to Christians |
| | OTTAWA, February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Liberal Senator Laurier L. LaPierre, who was once chastised in the Senate for comparing the Catholic Church to the Taliban, recently sent emails to various Christians concerned about homosexual hate crime bill C-250. | | | Liberal Senator Pepe LePew, or Laurier L. LaPierre (whatever) should worry more about God striking him dead. | | | Liberals are very tolerant and accepting of other like minded liberals. |
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| | Wednesday, January 14, 2003 |
| | The Right Hononble Lester B. Pearson, Liberal, 1962-63 and 1965-1968. | | | The Right Hooorabb Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal, 1898-1911. | | | The Right Honourable Louis St. Laurent, Liberal, 1948-1957. |
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| | Sir Wilfrid Laurier Liberal |
| | Lady Laurier was one of the vice-presidents of the National Council of Women at its foundation. | | | Death: at age 77, Feb 17, 1919, of a stroke; |
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