Maurice Duplessis sat at the forefront of the Legislative Assembly by the time he was in his mid-forties; Québec was virtually at his command. His memory was long, and he had grievances against people he [read on]
Paul Gouin and Maurice Duplessis’ collaboration would last less than a year. Gouin, the leader of the newly-created Action libérale nationale and Duplessis’ Conservatives collaborated for the 1935 provincial elections, making each electoral district a [read on]
Up-and-coming politician Paul Gouin would also follow in the footsteps of his family. The grandson of Honoré Mercier and the son of Lomer Gouin, the young Paul Gouin would have not one but two politicians—and [read on]
One could say that Maurice Duplessis had politics in his blood. Named after the electoral district of Saint-Maurice, the young Duplessis had his father to look up to as an example. Duplessis’ father was a [read on]
Lionel Groulx’s political and social thought came from his work and his upbringing. An historian and a priest, as well as a writer, Groulx grew up in the shadow of Henri Bourassa and was immersed [read on]
Henri Bourassa’s lineage bears some mention: the Bourassa household was able to trace their ancestry back on both sides all the way back to the first settlers in New France, but it was Henri Bourassa’s [read on]
Many people stop by their local Caisse Desjardin to do their banking, but did you know that there was a man behind the name? Alphonse Desjardins (not to be confused with another Alphonse Desjardins, a [read on]
Also known as the South African War, the cause of the Second Boer War’s beginnings depends on who you ask and when. For the British and the English-speaking Canadians of the time, it was a [read on]
Founded in 1884 by William-Edmond Blumhart, La Presse’s ideology at the beginnings of its publication was to be an independent newspaper. Independence, however, was relative. The paper’s beginnings and its position towards neutrality stemmed from [read on]
The story of residential schools is first and foremost a tragic one. Initially considered by both the Canadian government and leaders of the Plains Nations as something that would build the skills of children, residential [read on]
Not only the terminus of East End’s green line, Honoré Beaugrand was a person with quite the interesting life. A lifelong traveller and politician, Beaugrand’s family had been involved with the Parti Patriote raised Beaugrand [read on]
The game of speculation and the idea of putting things on risk at the chance of reaping great rewards have been central to the financiers of yesterday and today. The investors and businessmen of Montreal [read on]
A chance partnership at The Montreal Gazette of two men sparked the idea of a satirical magazine that eventually paved the way for the popular anglophone newspapers that dominated the noon day papers in Montreal [read on]
How did an Irishman become one of the Fathers of Confederation? The story begins, oddly enough, with a young man living in the United States. Thomas D’Arcy McGee originally immigrated to the United States during [read on]
Discussions for a confederation started in Charlottetown, when the Maritime colonies proposed their own union. After a series of governments swinging back and forth, the Province of Canada, composed of Canada West (formerly Upper Canada) [read on]
Problems existed almost from the very beginning of the Province of Canada’s new system of government. It seemed to achieve not only the semblance of a democratic system but also the gradual assimilation of the [read on]
In 1858, a young man arrived in Montréal, unknown to many but a select few who had seen his potential as a scholar back in Manitoba. This man, Louis Riel, was supposed to become a [read on]
The concept of the Underground Railroad had existed since the late eighteenth century but it was only until the 1830s when its name, part of a code for interested peoples to communicate with each other, [read on]
Quebec was the last province in a post-Confederation Canada that granted women a right to vote, in 1940 to be exact, but the story of how that happened is another story for another time. The [read on]
The effects of the 1837-8 Rebellions when the Canada East and Canada West were still Upper and Lower Canada respectively ran deep, and in some regards, it seemed that some of the remaining underlying prejudices [read on]
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