Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the week Louis St. Laurent had sessions with Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and one night they drove out to the Country Club to dine with Sir Norman Brook, Secretary to the British Cabinet. This week St. Laurent was going home to Quebec City for a reception worthy of a Prime Minister...
What is now unofficially dubbed the Trans-Canada Highway (see map) starts in Halifax, follows hard-surfaced roads through the Maritimes, Quebec and eastern Ontario, then loops over graveled roads into the bush before it straightens out on to patchily paved roads through Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary. It humps up over the Rockies at 5,327 feet, and goes on to Vancouver...
...Headquarters Needed. Louis St. Laurent was a topnotch Quebec lawyer and political novice when he was picked by Mr. King in 1941 for the Justice Ministry. His dignity, sincerity and all-round ability soon won him a national reputation as a statesman...
Although he had long known that he was King's man for the Liberal leadership, he never acted like a candidate. He spent the pre-convention weekend at his Quebec City home with his grandchildren. For three days last week he followed his usual routine in the external affairs office. Even when the convention got underway he spent most of his time seated dutifully on the platform. Occasionally and a little self-consciously, he drifted through the ornate lobby of the Chateau Laurier-the closest Ottawa came to a smoke-filled room-chatting with friends and newsmen...
...Liberals figure that in the end, Louis St. Laurent will be their best salesman. He is respected in Quebec (where the Liberal Party has been overwhelmed by the Union Nationale), admired elsewhere as a man who combines all that is best in French and English-speaking Canada. He symbolizes the unity which his nomination speech emphasized. For Louis St. Laurent, whose father was a French Canadian merchant and whose mother was first generation Irish, that is not hard. It is often said that when he was young, he never even knew that there were two official languages in Canada...