Quebec Before Duplessis

Name: Quebec Before Duplessis
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The Political Career of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau

Szerző: Bernard L. Vigod

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Kiadó: McGill-Queen's University Press

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Born into French Canada's traditional elite, a legal and landholding aristocracy, Louis-Alexandre Ta...

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Szerző

Bernard L. Vigod

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1986

oldal

330

EAN

9780773505889

Enbook ID

09235067

Kiadó

McGill-Queen's University Press

Súly

621

Méretek

159 x 235 x 22

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Born into French Canada's traditional elite, a legal and landholding aristocracy, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau emerged as the leading champion of industrial development in early twentieth-century Quebec. As premier from 1920 to 1936, and previously as chief lieutenant in the Liberal government of Sir Lomer Gouin, Taschereau vigorously advocated the development of Quebec's immense hydraulic forest, and mineral resources as the key to a prosperous future. His policy of encouraging private, usually non-French-Canadian entrepreneurs earned him the undying enmity of nationalist and conservative forces, yet he defended his position openly and won four general elections despite an unfavorable economic climate during much of his premiership. Bernard L. Vigod provides the first balanced assessment of Taschereau's long career, countering the popular image of him - largely the creation of his political opponents - as the leader of a corrupt, reactionary regime tied to foreign financiers. Vigod shows that Taschereau possessed a coherent vision of French-Canadian society, a liberal one which welcomed material and intellectual progress and rejected the isolationism and resistance to change favoured by traditional nationalist and ultramontane thinkers. He gives Taschereau credit for his courageous attempt to guide Quebec through the depression, without ignoring his fatal inability to deal with the issues of social security and the electricity trust. This study reveals in its subject an intense if partisan commitment to Wilfrid Laurier's ideal of tolerance and compromise in Canadian political life. It also testifies to a genuine sense of public duty in a politician who was far more than a Duplessis with manners.

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