Canada's Prime Ministers Macdonald to Trudeau

by Cook, Ramsay

• ISBN13: 9780802091741
• ISBN10: 0802091741
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

The biographies of fifteen Canadian prime ministers are here brought together for the first time. These vividly presented stories, full of challenges, victories, and failures, are told with skill and understanding. Presented through the lives of leading politicians, this is a remarkable, engrossing, solidly documented account of the history of modern Canada. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ramsay Cook is General Editor, Dictionary of Canadian biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada and professor emeritus of history, York University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Sir John Alexander Macdonald: Liberal Conservative, 1867-73, 1878-91	p. 1
Alexander Mackenzie: Liberal, 1873-78	p. 51
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott: Liberal Conservative, 1891-92	p. 81
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson: Liberal Conservative, 1892-94	p. 93
Sir Mackenzie Bowell: Liberal Conservative, 1894-96	p. 117
Sir Charles Tupper: Liberal Conservative, 1896	p. 127
Sir Wilfrid Laurier: Liberal, 1896-1911	p. 149
Sir Robert Laird Borden: Liberal Conservative, 1911-17; Unionist, 1917-20	p. 193
Arthur Meighen: National Liberal and Conservative, 1920-21; Liberal Conservative, 1926	p. 225
William Lyon Mackenzie King: Liberal, 1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48	p. 251
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett: Liberal Conservative, 1930-35	p. 299
Louis-Stephen St-Laurent: Liberal, 1948-57	p. 329
John George Diefenbaker: Progressive Conservative, 1957-63	p. 355
Lester Bowles Pearson: Liberal, 1963-68	p. 385
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Liberal, 1968-79, 1980-84	p. 415
Contributors	p. 453
Illustration Credits	p. 455
Index	p. 457
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