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While in Victoriaville, Laurier was an Ensign in the Arthabaskaville Infantry Company, [3] ... Quebec, is designated Wilfrid Laurier House National Historic Site ...
The Laurier Museum is located in the home of former Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, which is designated Wilfrid Laurier House National Historic Site. [ 7 ] Many festivals are held throughout the year including the Week-end En Blues series of concerts, the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) in the spring, and the ...
A small house on the site where Wilfrid Laurier was born in 1841, which was acquired by the federal government in 1937 under the mistaken impression it was actually the Laurier family house (the house was built 5 years after the Lauriers sold the lot); one of two houses in Quebec that are designated NHSCs in commemoration of Canada's 7th Prime ...
Laurier House (French: Maison Laurier) is a National Historic Site in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (in the Sandy Hill district). It was formerly the residence of two Canadian prime ministers : Sir Wilfrid Laurier (for whom the house is named) and William Lyon Mackenzie King . [ 1 ]
Victoriaville QC 46°02′16″N 71°54′56″W / 46.0379°N 71.9156°W / 46.0379; -71.9156 ( Wilfrid Laurier House National Historic Site of Federal ( 9554 ),
Musée Laurier: Victoriaville: Centre-du-Québec: Multiple: website, includes the Maison Wilfrid-Laurier, the Victorian period summer home of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Hotel des Postes, a fine arts and historic exhibition centre Musée les Voitures d'eau: L'Isle-aux-Coudres: Capitale-Nationale: Maritime
Of the 235 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, only 82 returned Laurier Liberals in the election held December 17, 1917: 62 were elected in Quebec ridings, 1 from Alberta, 1 was from a Manitoba riding with a large francophone population, 4 were from New Brunswick, 4 were from Nova Scotia, 2 were from Prince Edward Island, and; 8 were from ...
It was Wilfrid Laurier's first election as leader of the Liberals. Although he lost the election, he increased the Liberals' support. He returned in 1896 to win a solid majority, despite losing the popular vote. Canadian voters would return to the issue of free trade 20 years later in the 1911 federal election.