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As Prime Minister, St. Laurent follows a rigid routine. By 9:35 a.m. he is at his desk, once the desk of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's only other French Canadian Prime Minister (1896-1911). At lunchtime, he usually walks across the street alone (he has no bodyguard) to the...
When Parliament is sitting, the white-haired Prime Minister is in his front-row seat every day, toying with his heavy horn-rimmed glasses or fingering his bristly mustache as he listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor...
An Evening Walk. Every evening after dinner, Père St. Laurent went walking with his youngsters on the Grande Allée or on the nearby Plains of Abraham. Thursday evenings were set aside for the comics, with father reading aloud. He had his own ideas about what was...
After his children were married, St. Laurent's big house on the Grande Allée became a different place. Most of the week it seemed deserted, but on Sundays and an occasional evening it was more crowded than ever. Sons, daughters, in-laws and grandchildren gathered for regular sessions...
Test No. 1. St. Laurent's first big test in public life came in 1944 when his own French Quebec lined up against conscription for overseas service. Although most politicians thought he was committing political suicide, St. Laurent came out for the draft. In the next election, he astounded everybody...