Overview

Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in developing Canada’s global middle-power role in global affairs and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. Contributors to The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent assess the degree to which he set the policy agenda. They explore the features of his personality that made him effective (or sometimes less so), the changes he wrought on the state apparatus and federal-provincial relations, and the substance of his government’s policies. This wide-ranging collection fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together seasoned professionals and new scholars to investigate the far-reaching influence of a politician whose astute policies and bold resolve moved Canada into the modern era.

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Author:   Patrice A. Dutil
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9780774864039

ISBN 10:   0774864036
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   30 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword / Robert Bothwell and John English Introduction: Louis St-Laurent’s Leadership in History / Patrice Dutil Part 1: Style 1 St-Laurent in Government: Realism and Idealism in Action / Patrice Dutil 2 Grandpapa: A Portrait of the Man and His Family / Jean Thérèse Riley 3 The Predominant Prime Minister: St-Laurent and His Cabinet / Stephen Azzi 4 Uncle Lou, Both Old and New: The Marketing of St-Laurent / Paul Litt 5 St-Laurent and the Age of Bureaucracy / Robert Bothwell Part 2: Structure 6 Thinking Confederation: St-Laurent and the Rowell-Sirois Commission / Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson 7 The Liminality of St-Laurent’s Intergovernmental Relations Strategy / P.E. Bryden 8 St-Laurent: The Last Father of Confederation? / David MacKenzie 9 Defence, Development, and Inuit: St-Laurent’s Modern Approach to the North / P. Whitney Lackenbauer 10 ""But There Is Another Source of Liberty and Vitality in Our Country"": St-Laurent and Regional Development / Michel S. Beaulieu 11 St-Laurent and Modern Provincial Equality / Mary Janigan 12 St-Laurent and the Modernization of the State / Luc Juillet and Luc Bernier 13 The Cautious Liberal: St-Laurent and National Hospitalization / Gregory P. Marchildon Part 3: Substance 14 St-Laurent, Quebec, and the French Fact: Belonging and Ambivalence / Xavier Gélinas 15 The Politics of St-Laurent on the Crown, Rituals, and Symbols / Christopher McCreery 16 St-Laurent, Judging, Justice, and the Death Penalty in the Shadow of the Cold War / Philip Girard 17 In Search of the St-Laurent Voting Coalition / Patrice Dutil 18 Winning Words: Party Platforms in the 1949, 1953, and 1957 Elections / Patrice Dutil and Peter M. Ryan 19 ""The Greatest Period ... Canada Has Had"": Immigration and the St-Laurent Years / Abril Liberatori 20 The Slow Evolution of Indian Policy during the St-Laurent Years / J.R. Miller 21 St-Laurent’s Gray Lecture and Canadian Citizenship in History / Adam Chapnick 22 A Voyage of Discovery: St-Laurent’s World Tour of 1954 / Greg Donaghy Postscript: Eastern Township Thinking / The Honourable Jean Charest Contributors; Index"

Reviews

The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent is a fine volume, one of the few recent edited collections held together by more than the binding. -- J.L. Granatstein * Literary Review of Canada * With this superbly-executed, comprehensive book, [St-Laurent] now gets the tribute he would not have asked for - but nonetheless deserves. -- Anthony Wilson-Smith, president & CEO of Historica Canada * Policy Magazine *

The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent span[s] a wide range of issues surrounding St-Laurent’s time as prime minister, making clear his importance as well as that of this oft overlooked period. -- Asa McKercher, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies * The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent is a fine volume, one of the few recent edited collections held together by more than the binding.   -- J.L. Granatstein * Literary Review of Canada * With this superbly-executed, comprehensive book, [St-Laurent] now gets the tribute he would not have asked for — but nonetheless deserves. -- Anthony Wilson-Smith, president & CEO of Historica Canada * Policy Magazine *

The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent span[s] a wide range of issues surrounding St-Laurent's time as prime minister, making clear his importance as well as that of this oft overlooked period. -- Asa McKercher, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies * The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent is a fine volume, one of the few recent edited collections held together by more than the binding. -- J.L. Granatstein * Literary Review of Canada * With this superbly-executed, comprehensive book, [St-Laurent] now gets the tribute he would not have asked for - but nonetheless deserves. -- Anthony Wilson-Smith, president & CEO of Historica Canada * Policy Magazine *

Author Information

Patrice Dutil is a professor of politics and public administration at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the author of many books, including Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden; Embattled Nation: Canada’s Wartime Election of 1917 (with David MacKenzie); and Canada, 1911: The Decisive Election That Shaped the Country (also with MacKenzie). He has also edited several collections, including Macdonald at 200: New Reflections and Legacies (with Roger Hall). He was the founding editor of the Literary Review of Canada (1991–96) and the president of the Champlain Society (2010–17).

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