Word: bourassa
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From the Pulpit. The Belangers had the support of Father Emile Bourassa of St. Patrice de Beaurivage parish. Said he: "Extraordinary things, that seem to come from divine powers, are going on." They recalled that when Father Edmond Pelletier of St. Sylvestre preached a sermon against the miracles, he became so ill that he had to leave the church. That did not stop him from condemning the "miracles" as "the most horrible exploitation of superstition I have ever seen...
...years as Prime Minister, Laurier had ruled Canada and the Liberal Party. Under him Canada had grown to nationhood. Bourassa approved when Laurier compelled Britain to acknowledge Canada's autonomy. But when Laurier sent Canadian contingents to fight in the Boer War, Bourassa turned against...
Unholy Alliance. Bourassa's sudden reappearance in the news evoked memories of a great figure in Canadian history. Thirty years ago Nationalist Bourassa formed an "unholy alliance" with anti-nationalist Tories to defeat French Canada's No. 1 statesman, Sir Wilfred Laurier...
When Laurier sought re-election in 1911 on a platform of tariff reciprocity with the U.S., he found himself denounced by Bourassa's nationalists as an imperialist, by the Tories of English Canada for disloyalty to Britain. Defeated and embittered, Laurier retired to the Opposition, never regained office, died in 1919. Bourassa's nationalist faith deeply affected French Canadian thought. Although he finally quit politics in 1935, he emerged in World War II to fight conscription as bitterly as he had fought the sending of Canadians to South Africa...
Today, in semiretirement in Montreal, Henri Bourassa is still slim, still wiry. His old voice has cracked a little, but he is thoroughly unreconstructed. Last winter he advised French Canadians not to believe German atrocity stories, told them that only an alliance between Franco, Salazar, Petain and Mussolini would save the world from Communism...