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...French-speaking third of Canada that is Roman Catholic Quebec (pop. 5,000,000) last week voted an end to a long era of highhanded political dominance. Out after 16 years was the Union Nationals, the ultranationalist coalition party founded by a stony-willed Maurice Duplessis and dominated by him until his death last September. In came the revitalized Liberals of new Premier Jean Lesage, 48, a longtime (1945-58) member of the federal Parliament in Ottawa, who has never even sat in the provincial assembly he is now to control. In an upset victory, the Liberals...
...come to power back in 1936, when the demagogic Duplessis. playing skillfully on Depression issues and the longstanding French Canadian fears of being dominated by English Canada, won a smashing victory over a Liberal regime that had become corrupt. Except for the war years 1939 to 1944, Duplessis ruled Quebec thereafter with an iron hand and a corrupt machine. Cynical and dictatorial, Le Chef rewarded the voting faithful with bridges and roads, fought labor with savage laws and police brutality, kept Quebec's eyes turned to its agricultural past and stayed in close touch with the powerful church hierarchy...
Buoyed Spirits. Descendant of a family that settled in Quebec in 1678, businesslike Jean Lesage studied law at Quebec City's Laval University, where he developed into a flowery but effective orator. He was admitted to the bar in 1934 at 22, lost his first case to Louis St. Laurent, the Liberal lawyer who was Canada's Prime Minister from...
...sweeping revision of welfare policy. 52. Quebec had its second new premier in four months. His name: a) Maurice Duplessis...
Canadians watched with some foreboding as the Union Nationale ministers, clearly split, closeted themselves in Quebec City's famed Chateau Frontenac hotel. Significantly, Duplessis' closest crony, Attorney General Antoine Rivard. faded fast as a candidate. In a deadlock between Montreal and Quebec City factions, Dark Horse Barrette, a Joliette (pop. 19,000) insurance broker who still carries a union card as a machinist, emerged as the com promise...