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Oscar Douglas Skelton. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time
The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE MAKING OF A CANADIAN
CHAPTER II. POLITICS IN THE SIXTIES
CHAPTER III. FIRST YEARS IN PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER IV. IN OPPOSITION, 1878-1887
CHAPTER V. LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, 1887-1896
CHAPTER VI. LOOKING TO WASHINGTON
CHAPTER VII. AN EMPIRE IN TRANSITION
CHAPTER VIII. THE END OF A RÉGIME
CHAPTER IX. NEW MEN AT THE HELM
CHAPTER X. CANADA’S NEW PLACE IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER XI. THE COMING OF PROSPERITY
CHAPTER XII. CANADA AND FOREIGN POWERS
CHAPTER XIII. NATION AND EMPIRE
CHAPTER XIV. FIFTY YEARS OF UNION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INDEX
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Oscar Douglas Skelton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But neither work nor social intercourse filled all the young lawyer’s nights and days. It was in this period that he laid the foundation of his wide knowledge of the history and the literature of Canada and of the two countries from which Canada has sprung. Bossuet and Molière, Hugo and Racine, Burke and Sheridan, Macaulay and Bright, Shakespeare and Burns, all were equally devoured. Perhaps because of his grandfather’s association with the Pangman seigneury (the property of the fur trader Peter Pangman), his interest was early turned to the great fur trade of Canada, and he delved deep into its records. The life and words of Lincoln provided another study of perpetual interest. Though Montreal was intensely Southern in sympathy during the Civil War, Mr Laurier, from his days as a student, had been strongly attracted by the rugged personality of the Union leader, and had pierced below caricature and calumny to the tender strength, the magnanimous patience, of the man. A large niche in his growing library was therefore devoted to memoirs of Lincoln and his period.
Congenial work, loyal friends, the company of the great spirits of the past—these were much, but not all. The crowning happiness came with his marriage, May 13, 1868, to Miss Zoë Lafontaine of Montreal. To both, the marriage brought ideal companionship and fulfilment. To the husband especially it brought a watchfulness that at last conquered the illness that had threatened, a devotion which never flagged—for Lady Laurier is still to-day much more a ‘Laurierite’ than is Sir Wilfrid—and a stimulus that never permitted contentment with second best.
