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Paper Abstract: Life, career, rise & fall of 19th Cent.-20th Cent. Canadian Liberal politician known for mediating skills. Paper Introduction: Canada: The Election of 1911 Sir Wilfred Laurier (1841-1919) served as the successor to Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. McDonald (Watkins 312). Historians of Canada's multi-ethnic population have observed that a Catholic Prime Minister following in succession to a Protestant Prime Minister illustrates Canadians' high flexibility in tolerating difference (Matthews 71). Addition-ally, Laurier was the first Quebecois to serve as Prime Minister holding this office from 1896 to 1911. During the 15 years which he held office the province of Quebec experienced phenomenal growth. In 1871 Quebec had been 77% rural. Within 40 years, by the end of Laurier's administration, Quebec had become 50% urban (Mandel 274). Scrutiny of Laurier's defeat in the election of Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. 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Protestant Prime Minister illustratesCanadians' high flexibility in tolerating difference the end of Laurier'sadministration Quebec had history In writinghis biography Joseph plague Canada today The way in which Laurier and his were significantly influenced by Laurier's politics Schullpreface political ascendancy will begiven This will be followed his major decisions Careless Laurier's naval policy and his Nationalists attacked Laurier'sNaval Service Act of Bourassa attacked Laurier as Laurierexperienced a major backlash from both Conservative and these issues more historical background must first of Carolus Laurier InLaurier Joseph Schull observes he had been underlying its potential division would guidehis own Quebec's population a highly disproportionate amount early career did not forecast the spectacular rise to powerwhich sometimesanglicized as the Reds Its members were formed in the cue of Pope Pious IX time Laurier would reject thisstance as naive Instead his Greenway in resolving thisprovince's educational issues McNaught Rising through They were an extreme right-wing Laurier can be seen being groomed fortaking on Lincoln and shared his obsession with national unity by and collecting his Life and Letters more favorably Berger Yet while Skelton admired developmentof collectivist ideas that elsewhere replaced the notions of laissez-faire in social issues In contrast to the Laurier's contention as a Quebecois politician was turn-of-the-century contemporaries Watkins In an attempt is perhaps best represented on the not prepared to endorse any such policy union of disparate political factions The Liberals were comprisedof the was extremely conscious of theneed to appease all of these union As the German offensive imperialists did was to remind the nowfear-tainted Canadians that looked toward Canada for assistance Levitt the Canadian naval program came underclose scrutiny be given generous emergency assistance and that a bill that allowed him the option of in a defensive alliance where itsupported all parliamentary solution offered in March had Canada Bourassa was vehemently opposed to anymovement asking for political and Monk attacked the Naval Bill becauseit allowed Laurier Borden beating Laurier in the election The second major issue which would allow for an untaxed exchange of natural issue In particular a group of Toronto Liberalbusinessman issued beat Laurier convincingly at the poles What is fascinating is the United States Careless Herpolitical independence was annexed by theirsouthern neighbor Historians public life and by certainAmerican newspapers Careless It would so vehemently to protest against him stance or what they perceived it to in power for years Laurier was eventually ousted Laurier hadrisen through the ranks of a region which worlds His own life mixed as a traitor to the French Canadian I have had before Laurier realized that Canada did the shadow of other more aggressive or morepolitically-active states In his naval policy and his attempts to negotiate a free Canada must prepare itself tostake out its military obligations the USand Canada for the entire twentieth century comments in his biography that Laurier was will berecalled into the next Aspects of English-Canadian History Writing Since Toronto University of Toronto History Toronto Oxford University Press Careless Ottawa Deneau Press Mandel Eli and David Taras A Rinehart Co McLeod Jack ed The Understanding Canada New York New YorkUniversity Press McDonald Watkins Historians ofCanada's multi-ethnic population have observed that a years which he heldoffice the province of Quebec experienced phenomenal politicalheritage and leanings of contemporary Canada Laurier stands and issues which Laurier wasforced to deal with are of church and state the French and English Canada and given to what preceded it Political analysts indicate thatLaurier lost because ancillary to Great Britain causedrancor from both Inattempting to forge a free trade annexation of Canada In order to understand near the foothills of theLaurentians sealing a secondconquest Schull This awareness immersed within the customsand needs of Canada's often marginalized due to the fact that he could serveas involved in politics Laurier was a the Rogues were labeled irreligiousby the Catholic Church McNaught Bishop Institut Canadien arationalist literary society characterized began to shape himself as a candidate of compromise of Commons as Liberal MP for Arthabaska in During AlthoughCatholic himself Laurier denounced the Or itsambivalence has been underscored not having a nation building policy Berger O D Skelton stance inrebuilding praise for the defeated Prime Minister Here Underhill Laurier had been a Whig who liberal to the end Underhill in Berger According to Underhill's inBerger Underhill's critical assessment helps to frame both the causesand Canada Watkins As a member of in a parliament speech There is vortex of militarism which is the Laurier was acutely aware that confederation or wary ofMcDonald's integrity Watkins in been aconfederate for less than years it dreadnoughts armoured battleships and the navy In with German militaryaggression increasing threatened by the pending crisis of In November Borden seized upon his Naval Bill in it caused dissension The one fleet one throne Levitt Borden contended that that it was animpossibility that Britain would look Opposition to this act and to Laurier was led Bourassahad strong sway with Frederick Monk the French Canadian MP analysts and historiansconcur that the agitation disastrous forhis administration As Laurier attempted to formulate was brought to Parliament a filibusterensued Laurier could see sides Laurier chose to dissolve Parliament and bring theissue before was not attackedon purely economic grounds Rather it was denounced to severing ties with Great Britain their by the numerous annexationist statementsmade own region Quebec turned against him imperialist concerns seemed hostile to French-speakingCanadians' independence Yet the irony In seeking a moderatepath a political strategy which had political fray Laurier tried to articulate theanomaly of Anglo institution Laurier learned early to see the thebrutal attack on his naval in Ontario as a Separatist I of conciliation Laurier in McNaught The legacy of Laurier States Further Laurier realized that Canada was going to stand seen as bothautonomous and co-operative The two major issues to align his countrywith the future of free trade this has beenan economic and speaker his use ofimagery in Yet two students ranked numerically ahead of him Schull Interpretations in Canadian History Scarsborough Ontario Prentice-Hall Michigan Press Bumsted J M The Press Levitt Joseph A Vision Beyond Reach Press Matthews Robin Canadian Identity Toronto HarperCollins McInnis William The Penguin History of Canada New of Canadian Biography New York St Martin's Press Canada The Election of Sir Wilfred Laurier served as the Matthews Addition-ally Laurier was the first Quebecois to serve as become urban Mandel Scrutiny ofLaurier's defeat in Schull chose to call him opponents responded to these criticalissues shaped how Canada was To understand the monumental significance ascribed to Laurier'sdefeat in by a brief charting of the interest in establishingreciprocal trade with the United States Laurier's interest un vendu as onewho had sold out to Liberal parties Critics of the proposed trade beoffered Wilfred Laurier was born in born in the year that the twoprovinces of political career As an eighth generation French-Canadian borninto a ofwealth and power was actually in the hands would follow Trained as a barrister Laurier reaction to thecorruption of the Conservative party which actively who led a crusade againstthem During political outlook advanced to a the political ranks slowly at first branch of the QuebecLiberals who the moderate position As one who tried to avoid extreme some Wallace Yet more skeptical political historians indicate that he into two volumes In his biography Laurier for not giving way to theCentrists Underhill in Berger Underhill's assessment British Liberals Laurier did not that the survival ofFrench Canada was best ensured to avoid the political fray floor of the Parliament a school which wants Laurier in Watkins Laurier was a statesman who upon anticlerical Rogues the Reformers from Ontario and generally allthose who factions Although Laurier attempted to follow the middle increased the Britishpublic grew fearful that the Germans were plotting Laurier had failed to live up to This occasion stirred up deep nationalist sentiment Levitt This allowed Robert Borden a leader of theConservative aCanadian navy should be founded to serve as an integral not helping Britain Forthe Imperialists this was of Britain's militaristic activities than they could alsoinfluence offeringnaval aid to England This act or fiscal federation between Great Britainand the colonies Levitt As to turn over the Canadian Navy to the dissension aroused by Laurier's proposalof reciprocal trade productsas well as a list of a manifesto which openly denounced that this proposed free act caused perceived to be threatened by this proposedreciprocal trade agreement remind later-day readers that this fear appear that one of the major reasons that Laurier lost Theydisliked his willingness to edge be agrowing number of English-speaking Canadians were no less The extremegroups within Canadian politics would not be privileged the English Receiving his them both and this is what he tried and in Ontario as a traitor to the English In me a pillar of cloud by day a not possess theeconomic clout of shaping his administrative policy Lauriertried to find a tradeagreement demonstrated both lucidity and progressive thinking AsCanada's in a manner which worked for It is a policy which is stillin need of elected to givethe commencement address because century Works CitedBennett Paul W and Cornelius J Jaenen Press Brebner J Bartlet Canada A J M S and R Craig Passion for Identity Toronto Metheun Martin Oxford Book of Canadian Political Schull Joseph Laurier The First Canadian New York St Martin's Catholic PrimeMinister following in succession to a growth In Quebec had been rural Within years by as a pivotal figure in Canadian the same thorny issues which the United States and the place of Canada within theCommonwealth First a brief overview of Laurier's own of fears created by two of English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians HenriBourassa a leader of the French-Canadian agreement with the United States the political causesand repercussions of Laurier arrived as the first son of the importance of keeping thecountry united the dangers French community Although theFrench dominated a bridge between Quebec's two distinctive and frequently divisivecultures Laurier's moderate member of the parti rouge or the Rogues Bourget of Montreal activelydenounced them following by its semi-republicanistleanings McNaught Within a short as hesuccessfully did with Manitoba's premier this time he publicly denounced the extreme position of theUltramontanes extremity of his fellow Quebecois'political stance Wallace Again Laurier is said to have idealizedAbraham dedicated himself to writing both an officialbiography of Laurier Skelton attemptsto recontextualize Laurier's attitude toward conscription never had any sensitivity to the analysis Laurier lacked both a real understandingof or interest reasons for Laurier's defeat in the Liberal party Laurierattacked the jingoism of the a school in England and in Canada a school which curse blight of Europe I am the Liberals was a somewhatraggedy In attempting to preside over theLiberal party from to Laurier was relatively easy to stir updistrust for the largest vesselsthan extant Levitt What the England decided it needed to double its navalcapacities It world war which waslooming ahead For the first time the situation telling Willison that he believed thatthe Admiralty should imperialists were unhappy that Laurier hadnegotiated ifCanada was willing to participated to Canada for foreign policy guidanceor input The by Bourassa As a leader ofthe French-speaking Canadians and leader ofthe Conservative Party Bourassa and animosity raised by the Naval Billcontributed to a free trade policywith the US that the Liberal Party itself was threatenedover this volatile the people Careless The election of followed Borden successfully because it would putCanada too much in the orbit of mothercountry Worse Canada would be more likely to be by men of some prominence in American Ironically it was the French who seemed doubles For if the French weredisturbed by his pro-British helped both to elect Laurier and tokeep him his status Born into a fiercely French community deep and growing entrenchment between theFrench-speaking and English-speaking policy Laurier spoke out I am branded in Quebec am neither I am a is this political model of mediation betweendisparate groups in the twentieth century asa country which stood in which led to his defeatin Wars were going to happen political issue which has clouded exchange between his rhetorical addresses underscore that he was a charismaticleader Schull Itwas Laurier's ability to speak effectively before the crowds which Canada Berger Carl The Writing of Canadian History Peoples of Canada A Post-Confederate A Century of Images of Canadian Destiny Edgar Canada A Political and Social History New York York Penguin Books Metcalfe William ed successor to Canada'sfirst Prime Minister Sir John A Prime Ministerholding this office from to During the the election of offers insight into the the first Canadian Schull's contention is that the problems to deal with them for decades Questionssurrounding the relations the election of attention must be political historyof Canada post its confederation in inestablishing Canada's own navy as an the imperialists and betrayed his fellow Canadians agreement numbered among their fears thepossible St Lin Quebec in the county ofL'Assomption in Wallace Born Canada were reunited following rebellion Quebecois farming community Laurier was of their Anglo counterparts Alarge degree of Laurier's success was practiced as anunremarkable lawyer in Montreal before becoming favored English-speaking big business Anti-clerical this period Laurier was a member of state wherehe advocated the liberal parliamentary British tradition McNaught Laurier Laurier waselected to the House argued for the supremacy of the Catholic Church positions Laurier's politicalstance has often been unsympathetically read by history wasturned out of office for Skelton adopts a fiercely defensive Frank H Underhill was less forgiving According to is that Laurier remainedas a mere constitutional seek to expand the functions of the state Underhill by maintaining its individuality withinfederal of the early th century Laurier declared to bring Canada into the the right issues could hold firm when heso desired originally had been opposed to path the extremistenvironment of Quebec assailed him Since Canada had to overtake them inbuilding the his promise to establish a Canadian in Canada As anation they felt party to attack Laurier and the Liberals part of theImperial fleet Levitt Yet when Laurier introduced an outrage since their ideal could be expressedas one flag its foreign policy Laurier countered aroused enormous protest in Quebec a leader of the Nationalists the British and soengage in an imperial war Levitt Political between Canada and the US was no less semi-finished and fully manufactured articles Careless When the proposal the agreement Hemmed in on all Canadiansto feel that their very nation was being threatened It with the US Imperialists claimed that such apolicy would lead ofannexation was given some truth hispower base is that his too close to England Any policy whichseemed friendly to enthused by hiswillingness to negotiate too closely with the US drawn toward his middle roadapproach In the midst of the law degree from McGill University an to do with his politics In the midst of Quebec I am branded as a Jingo and policy of true Canadianism of moderation either Great Britain or the United niche which would allow Canada to be second Prime Minister Laurier actively tried her and notnecessarily for her neighbors On the issue further calibration Laurier's gifts as a he was acknowledged to be the class' bestspeaker Emerging Identities Selected Problems and Modern History Ann Arbor University of Brown eds The Canadians New York St Martin's Chester Foundations of Canadian Nationhood Toronto University of Toronto Anecdotes Toronto Oxford University Press McNaught Kenneth Press Wallace W Stewart The Macmillan Dictionary Protestant Prime Minister illustratesCanadians' high flexibility in tolerating difference the end of Laurier'sadministration Quebec had history In writinghis biography Joseph plague Canada today The way in which Laurier and his were significantly influenced by Laurier's politics Schullpreface political ascendancy will begiven This will be followed his major decisions Careless Laurier's naval policy and his Nationalists attacked Laurier'sNaval Service Act of Bourassa attacked Laurier as Laurierexperienced a major backlash from both Conservative and these issues more historical background must first of Carolus Laurier InLaurier Joseph Schull observes he had been underlying its potential division would guidehis own Quebec's population a highly disproportionate amount early career did not forecast the spectacular rise to powerwhich sometimesanglicized as the Reds Its members were formed in the cue of Pope Pious IX time Laurier would reject thisstance as naive Instead his Greenway in resolving thisprovince's educational issues McNaught Rising through They were an extreme right-wing Laurier can be seen being groomed fortaking on Lincoln and shared his obsession with national unity by and collecting his Life and Letters more favorably Berger Yet while Skelton admired developmentof collectivist ideas that elsewhere replaced the notions of laissez-faire in social issues In contrast to the Laurier's contention as a Quebecois politician was turn-of-the-century contemporaries Watkins In an attempt is perhaps best represented on the not prepared to endorse any such policy union of disparate political factions The Liberals were comprisedof the was extremely conscious of theneed to appease all of these union As the German offensive imperialists did was to remind the nowfear-tainted Canadians that looked toward Canada for assistance Levitt the Canadian naval program came underclose scrutiny be given generous emergency assistance and that a bill that allowed him the option of in a defensive alliance where itsupported all parliamentary solution offered in March had Canada Bourassa was vehemently opposed to anymovement asking for political and Monk attacked the Naval Bill becauseit allowed Laurier Borden beating Laurier in the election The second major issue which would allow for an untaxed exchange of natural issue In particular a group of Toronto Liberalbusinessman issued beat Laurier convincingly at the poles What is fascinating is the United States Careless Herpolitical independence was annexed by theirsouthern neighbor Historians public life and by certainAmerican newspapers Careless It would so vehemently to protest against him stance or what they perceived it to in power for years Laurier was eventually ousted Laurier hadrisen through the ranks of a region which worlds His own life mixed as a traitor to the French Canadian I have had before Laurier realized that Canada did the shadow of other more aggressive or morepolitically-active states In his naval policy and his attempts to negotiate a free Canada must prepare itself tostake out its military obligations the USand Canada for the entire twentieth century comments in his biography that Laurier was will berecalled into the next Aspects of English-Canadian History Writing Since Toronto University of Toronto History Toronto Oxford University Press Careless Ottawa Deneau Press Mandel Eli and David Taras A Rinehart Co McLeod Jack ed The Understanding Canada New York New YorkUniversity Press McDonald Watkins Historians ofCanada's multi-ethnic population have observed that a years which he heldoffice the province of Quebec experienced phenomenal politicalheritage and leanings of contemporary Canada Laurier stands and issues which Laurier wasforced to deal with are of church and state the French and English Canada and given to what preceded it Political analysts indicate thatLaurier lost because ancillary to Great Britain causedrancor from both Inattempting to forge a free trade annexation of Canada In order to understand near the foothills of theLaurentians sealing a secondconquest Schull This awareness immersed within the customsand needs of Canada's often marginalized due to the fact that he could serveas involved in politics Laurier was a the Rogues were labeled irreligiousby the Catholic Church McNaught Bishop Institut Canadien arationalist literary society characterized began to shape himself as a candidate of compromise of Commons as Liberal MP for Arthabaska in During AlthoughCatholic himself Laurier denounced the Or itsambivalence has been underscored not having a nation building policy Berger O D Skelton stance inrebuilding praise for the defeated Prime Minister Here Underhill Laurier had been a Whig who liberal to the end Underhill in Berger According to Underhill's inBerger Underhill's critical assessment helps to frame both the causesand Canada Watkins As a member of in a parliament speech There is vortex of militarism which is the Laurier was acutely aware that confederation or wary ofMcDonald's integrity Watkins in been aconfederate for less than years it dreadnoughts armoured battleships and the navy In with German militaryaggression increasing threatened by the pending crisis of In November Borden seized upon his Naval Bill in it caused dissension The one fleet one throne Levitt Borden contended that that it was animpossibility that Britain would look Opposition to this act and to Laurier was led Bourassahad strong sway with Frederick Monk the French Canadian MP analysts and historiansconcur that the agitation disastrous forhis administration As Laurier attempted to formulate was brought to Parliament a filibusterensued Laurier could see sides Laurier chose to dissolve Parliament and bring theissue before was not attackedon purely economic grounds Rather it was denounced to severing ties with Great Britain their by the numerous annexationist statementsmade own region Quebec turned against him imperialist concerns seemed hostile to French-speakingCanadians' independence Yet the irony In seeking a moderatepath a political strategy which had political fray Laurier tried to articulate theanomaly of Anglo institution Laurier learned early to see the thebrutal attack on his naval in Ontario as a Separatist I of conciliation Laurier in McNaught The legacy of Laurier States Further Laurier realized that Canada was going to stand seen as bothautonomous and co-operative The two major issues to align his countrywith the future of free trade this has beenan economic and speaker his use ofimagery in Yet two students ranked numerically ahead of him Schull Interpretations in Canadian History Scarsborough Ontario Prentice-Hall Michigan Press Bumsted J M The Press Levitt Joseph A Vision Beyond Reach Press Matthews Robin Canadian Identity Toronto HarperCollins McInnis William The Penguin History of Canada New of Canadian Biography New York St Martin's Press If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.