See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• WILFRID (c. 634-709)

WILFRID See also:

• SIR WILFRID LAURIER (1841– )

LAURIER (1841– )  , See also:

• CANADIAN

Canadian statesman, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1841, at St Lin in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• QUEBEC

Quebec . The See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic parents, he attended the elementary school of his native See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish and for eight or nine months was a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of the See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant elementary school at New See also:

• GLASGOW

Glasgow in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to learn See also:

• ENGLISH

English; his association with the Presbyterian See also:

• FAMILY

family with whom he lived during this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period had a permanent See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on his mind . At twelve years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he entered L'Assomption See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college, and was there for seven years . The college, like all the secondary See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools in Quebec then avail-able for Roman Catholics, was under See also:

• DIRECT

direct ecclesiastical See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control . On leaving it he entered a See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office at See also:

• MONTREAL

Montreal and took the law course at McGill University . At See also:

• GRADUATION (see also GRADUATE)

graduation he delivered the valedictory address for his class . This, like so many of his later utterances, closed with an See also:

• APPEAL

appeal for sympathy and See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union between the French and English races as the See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret of the future of See also:

• CANADA

Canada . He began to practise law in Montreal, but owing to See also:

• ILL

ill-See also:

• HEALTH

health soon removed to Athabaska, where he opened a law office and undertook also to edit Le Defricheur, a newspaper then on the See also:

• EVE

eve of collapse . At Athabaska, the seat of one of the See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior courts of Quebec, the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district was fairly divided between French- and English-speaking See also:

• PEOPLE

people, and See also:

• LAURIER, SIR WILFRID (1841– )

Laurier's career was undoubtedly influenced by his See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant association with English-speaking people and his intimate acquaintance with their views and aspirations . While at Montreal he had joined the Institut Canadien, a See also:

• LITERARY

literary and scientific society which, owing to its liberal discussions and the fact that certain books upon its shelves were on the See also:

• INDEX

Index expurgatorius, was finally condemned by the Roman Catholic authorities . Le Defricheur was an See also:

• ORGAN

organ of extreme French sentiment, opposed to See also:

• CONFEDERATION (Fr. confederation, Lat. confoederatio, from foedus, a league, foederare, to form a league)

confederation, and also under ecclesiastical censure . One of its few surviving copies contains an See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by Laurier opposing confederation as a See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme designed in the See also:

• INTEREST

interest of the English colonies in See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICA

America, and certain to prove the See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb of the French See also:

• RACE

race and the ruinof See also:

• LOWER

Lower Canada .

The Liberals of Quebec under the leadership of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine See also:

• DORION, SIR ANTOINE

Dorion were hostile to confederation, or at least to the terms of union agreed upon at the Quebec See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference, and Laurier in editorials and speeches maintained the position of Dorion and his See also:

• ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

allies . He was elected to the Quebec legislature in 1871, and his first speech in the provincial See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly excited See also:

• GREAT

great interest, on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of its literary qualities and the attractive manner and logical method of the See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker . He was not less successful in the Dominion See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of See also:

• COMMONS

Commons, to which he was elected in 1874 . During his first two years in the federal See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament his See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief speeches were made in See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of Rid and the French halfbreeds who were concerned in the Red See also:

• RIVER

River See also:

• REBELLION

rebellion, and on fiscal questions . Sir See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• MACDONALD, FLORA (1722—1790)
• MACDONALD, GEORGE (1824-1905)
• MACDONALD, JACQUES ETIENNE JOSEPH
• MACDONALD, JOHN SANDFIELD (1812-1872)
• MACDONALD, LAWRENCE (1799-1878)
• MACDONALD, SIR HECTOR ARCHIBALD (1852-1903)
• MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER (1815-1891)

Macdonald, then in opposition, had committed his party to a protectionist policy, and Laurier, notwithstanding that the Liberal party stood for a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low See also:

• TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff, avowed himself to be " a moderate protectionist." He declared that if he were in Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain he would be a See also:

• FREE

free trader, but that free See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade or See also:

• PROTECTION

protection must he applied according to the necessities of a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and that which protection necessarily involved See also:

• TAXATION
• TAXATION (from " tax," derived, through the French, from Lat. taxare, to appraise, which again is connected with the same root as tangere, to touch)

taxation it was the See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price a See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young and vigorous nation must pay for its development . But the Liberal See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, to which Laurier was admitted as See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of inland See also:

• REVENUE
• REVENUE (0. Fr. revenu, from revenir, to return)

revenue in 1877, made only a slight increase in duties, raising the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general tariff from 15% to 171%; and against the See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• MACKENZIE
• MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (1822-1892)
• MACKENZIE, HENRY (1745-1831)
• MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER (c. 1755-1820)
• MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1847— )
• MACKENZIE, SIR GEORGE (1636-1691)
• MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (1837-1892)
• MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (1795-1861)

Mackenzie, Sir See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• CARTWRIGHT, EDMUND (1743–1823)
• CARTWRIGHT, JOHN (1740–1824)
• CARTWRIGHT, PETER (1785–1872)
• CARTWRIGHT, SIR RICHARD JOHN (1835– )
• CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS (c. 1535–1603)
• CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM (1611–1643)

Cartwright, See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

Brown, Laurier and other of the more influential leaders of the party, it adhered to a low tariff See also:

• PLATFORM (Fr. plateforme, i.e. ground plan)

platform . In the bye-See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election which followed Laurier's See also:

• ADMISSION

admission to the See also:

• CABINET

cabinet he was defeated--the only See also:

• PERSONAL

personal defeat he ever sustained; but a few See also:

• WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks later he was returned for Quebec See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East, a See also:

• CONSTITUENCY (from " constituent," that which forms a necessary part of a thing; Lat. constituere, to create)

constituency which he held thenceforth by enormous majorities . In 1878 his party went out of office and Sir John Macdonald entered upon a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• TERM

term of See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, with protection as the chief feature of his policy, to which was afterwards added the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway . After the defeat of the Mackenzie government, Laurier sat in Parliament as the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the Quebec Liberals and first See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant to the Hon . See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• BLAKE, EDWARD (1833– )
• BLAKE, ROBERT (1599-1657)
• BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827)

Blake, who succeeded Mackenzie in the leadership of the party . He was associated with Blake in his sustained opposition to high tariff, and to the Conservative See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan for the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway, and was a conspicuous figure in the long struggle between Sir John Macdonald and the leaders of the Liberal party to See also:

• SETTLE
• SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648–1724)

settle the territorial limits of the province of See also:

• ONTARIO
• ONTARIO, LAKE

Ontario and the legislative rights of the provinces under the constitution . He was forced also to maintain' a long conflict with the ultramontane See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element of the Roman Catholic See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church in Quebec, which for many years had a See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close working See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance with the Conservative politicians of the province and even employed spiritual See also:

• COERCION (from Lat. coercere, to restrain)
• COERCION, CONTRACT

coercion in order to detach votes from the Liberal party .

Notwithstanding that Quebec was almost solidly Roman Catholic the Rouges sternly resisted clerical pressure; they appealed to the courts and had certain elections voided on the ground of undue clerical influence, and at length persuaded the See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

pope to send out a delegate to Canada, through whose inquiry into the circumstances the abuses were checked and the zeal of the ultramontanes restrained . In 1887, upon the res'gnation of Blake on the ground of ill health, Laurier became leader of the Liberal party, although he and many of the more influential men in the party doubted the See also:

• WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

wisdom of the proceeding . He was the first French Canadian to See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead a federal party in Canada since confederation . Apart from the natural fear that he would arouse See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice in the English-speaking provinces, the second See also:

• RIEL, LOUIS (1844-1885)

Riel rebellion was then still fresh in the public mind, and the fierce nationalist agitation which Riel's See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution had excited in Quebec had hardly sub-sided . Laurier could hardly have come to the leadership at a more inopportune moment, and probably he would not have accepted the office at all if he had not believed that Blake could be persuaded to resume the leadership when his health was restored . But from the first he won great popularity even in the English-speaking provinces, and showed unusual capacity for leadership . His party was beaten in the first general election held after he became leader (1891), but even with its policy of unrestricted See also:

• RECIPROCITY (Lat. reciprocus, returning back the same way, alternating, probably from re back and pro forward)

reciprocity with the See also:

• UNITED

United States, and with Sir John Macdonald still at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the Conservative party, it was beaten by only a small See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority . Five years later, with unrestricted reciprocity relegated to the background, and with a platform which demanded tariff revision so adjusted as not to endanger established interests, and which opposed the federal measure designed to restore in See also:

• MANITOBA

Manitoba the See also:

• SEPARATE

separate or Roman Catholic schools which the provincial government had abolished, Laurier carried the country, and in See also:

• JULY

July 1896 he was called by See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• ABERDEEN
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL O (1637-1720)
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4TH EARL

Aberdeen, then See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor-general, to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a government . He was the first French-Canadian to occupy the office of premier; and his personal supremacy was shown by his long continuance in power . During the years from 1896 to 1910, he came to hold a position within the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire which was in its way unique, and in this period he had seen Canadian prosperity advance progressively by leaps and See also:

• BOUNDS, BEATING THE

bounds . The chief features of his See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration were the fiscal preference of 331% in favour of goods imported into Canada from Great Britain, the despatch of Canadian contingents to See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa during the See also:

• BOER

Boer See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, the See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

contract with the See also:

• GRAND

Grand See also:

• TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

Trunk railway for the construction of a second transcontinental road from ocean to ocean, the See also:

• ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

assumption by Canada of the imperial fortresses at See also:

• HALIFAX
• HALIFAX, CHARLES MONTAGUE, EARL OF (1661–1715)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE MONTAGU DUNK, 2ND EARL OF (1716-1771)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF (1633-1695)

Halifax and Esquimault, the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of a federal railway See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission with power to regulate See also:

• FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight charges, See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express rates and See also:

• TELEPHONE (Gr. rjXs, far, and dxwvr7, voice)

telephone rates, and the relations between competing companies, the reduction of the postal See also:

• RATE

rate to Great Britain from 5 cents to 2 cents and of the domestic rate from 3 cents to 2 cents, a substantial contribution to the Pacific See also:

• CABLE (from Late Lat. capulum, a halter, from capere, to take hold of)
• CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1844– )

cable, a See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical and courageous policy of See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement and development in the Western territories, the See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the North-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West territories into the provinces of See also:

• ALBERTA

Alberta and See also:

• SASKATCHEWAN
• SASKATCHEWAN (Cree: " Rapid River ")

Saskatchewan and the enactment of the legislation necessary to give them provincial status, and finally (1910), a tariff arrangement with the United States, which, if not all that Canada might claim in the way of reciprocity, showed how entirely the course of events had changed the See also:

• BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

balance of commercial interests in North America . Laurier made his first visit to Great Britain on the occasion of See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• VICTORIA
• VICTORIA (or VITTORIA), TOMMASSO LUDOVICO DA (C. I540-C. 1613)
• VICTORIA [ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA]

Victoria's See also:

• DIAMOND

diamond See also:

• JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

jubilee (1897), when he received the grand See also:

• CROSS

cross of the See also:

• BATH
• BATH, THOMAS THYNNE
• BATH, WILLIAM

Bath; he then secured the denunciation of the Belgian and See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• TREATIES

treaties and thus obtained for the colonies the right to make preferential trade arrangements with the See also:

• MOTHER

mother country .

His See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality made a powerful impression in Great Britain and also in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, which he visited before his return to Canada . His strong facial resemblance both to Lord See also:

• BEACONSFIELD
• BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF

Beaconsfield and to Sir John Macdonald marked him out in the public See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye, and he captured See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention by his See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of manner, See also:

• FINE

fine command of scholarly English and genuine eloquence . Some of his speeches in Great Britain, coming as they did from a French-Canadian, and revealing delicate appreciation of British sentiment and thorough comprehension of the See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius of British institutions, excited great interest and See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm, while one or two impassioned speeches in the Canadian parliament during the Boer war profoundly influenced See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion in Canada and had a pronounced effect throughout the empire . A skilful party-leader, Laurier kept from the first not only the See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection of his political See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends but the respect of his opponents; while enforcing the orderly conduct of public business, he was careful as first minister to maintain the dignity of parliament . In office he proved more of an opportunist than his career in opposition would have indicated, but his political courage and .personal integrity remained beyond suspicion . His See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy for the political See also:

• AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, law)

autonomy of Canada was noticeable in his attitude at the Colonial conference held at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King Edward's See also:

• CORONATION (Lat. corona, crown)

coronation, and marked all his See also:

• DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic dealings with the mother country . But he strove for sympathetic relations between Canadian and imperial authorities, and favoured general legislative and fiscal co-operation between the two countries . He strove also for See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good relations between the two races in Canada, and between Canada and the United States . Although he was classed in Canada as a Liberal, his tendencies would in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England have been considered strongly conservative;an individualist rather than a collectivist, he opposed the intrusion of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state into the See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere of private enterprise, and showed no sympathy with the See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement for state operation of See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, telegraphs and telephones, or with any kindred proposal looking to the See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of the 'obligations of the central government .