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Title: The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
A Chronicle of Our Own Time

Author: Oscar D. Skelton

Release Date: January 21, 2010 [EBook #31041]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: SIR WILFRID LAURIER 'IN ACTION' After an instantaneous
photograph taken during an address in the open air at Sorel, 1911]

THE DAY OF

SIR WILFRID LAURIER

A Chronicle of Our Own Times

BY

OSCAR D. SKELTON

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1916

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

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PREFATORY NOTE

In conformity with its title, this volume, save for the earlier
chapters, is history rather than biography, is of the _day_, more than
of the man. The aim has been to review the more significant events and
tendencies in the recent political life of Canada. In a later and
larger work it is hoped to present a more personal and intimate
biography of Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

O. D. SKELTON.

KINGSTON, 1915.

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CONTENTS

Page

PREFATORY NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
I. THE MAKING OF A CANADIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. POLITICS IN THE SIXTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
III. FIRST YEARS IN PARLIAMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
IV. IN OPPOSITION, 1878-1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
V. LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, 1887-1896 . . . . . . . . . . 91
VI. LOOKING TO WASHINGTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
VII. AN EMPIRE IN TRANSITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
VIII. THE END OF A REGIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
IX. NEW MEN AT THE HELM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
X. CANADA'S NEW PLACE IN THE WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
XI. THE COMING OF PROSPERITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
XII. CANADA AND FOREIGN POWERS . . . . .