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Laurier House was willed to the Crown upon Mackenzie King's death in 1950 and was thus also available for designation as the prime minister's official residence at the time. [ 4 ] Louis St. Laurent was the first to take up residence at 24 Sussex Drive in 1951.
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 ]
Laurier Brantford is Wilfrid Laurier University's second campus located in Brantford, Ontario. The first and original campus of Wilfrid Laurier University is located in Waterloo , Ontario. Laurier follows a 'multicampus' structure, [ 1 ] as it is one university with multiple campuses.
Rideau Hall (officially Government House) is the official residence of the governor general of Canada, the representative of the monarch of Canada. [1] [2] [3] Located in Ottawa, the capital of the country on a 36-hectare (88-acre) estate at 1 Sussex Drive.
The Laurier Memorial Committee was founded in 1948 under the auspices of the Canadian Democratic Institute and the Canadian Unity Alliance in order to erect a memorial to Sir Wilfrid Laurier. His inauguration took place on October 12, 1953. The activities of the Monument Committee ended at the end of 1954.
Chateau Laurier is a Canadian dramatic web series, which premiered in 2018. [1] A period drama set in 1912, the series stars Kate Ross as Hattie Bracebridge, a young woman who is accompanied by her aunt to the Château Laurier in Ottawa in preparation for an unwanted arranged marriage to Vivian Mutchmor, but has a romantic interlude with a hotel busboy (Luke Humphrey) before discovering that ...
Construction began in the spring of 2004. Private and business donations funded the new mansion. The total cost of the project was $2.87 million. The 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m 2) residence is on the east shore of Capitol Lake, at 119 North Washington Avenue, in Pierre, South Dakota. Mike Rounds was the inaugural resident.
He outmaneuvered more senior competitors by embracing Laurier's legacy, championing labour interests, calling for welfare reform, and offering solid opposition to the Conservative rivals. [37] When Laurier died in 1919, King was elected leader in the first Liberal leadership convention , defeating his three rivals on the fourth ballot.