It was named after the First Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine.
An annual lecture at the Symposium is broadcast on CBC Radio One's Ideas.
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Canada's existence and democratic foundation owes a great deal to the partnership of two 19th century political visionaries, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, the first democratically elected Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada.
Don LaFontaine | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | Charles Lafontaine | Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine | Philippe Lafontaine | Lafontaine | Fernand Lafontaine | De Lafontaine | Andrea LaFontaine |
This is abruptly interrupted by a sample from the 1985 electronica song "Oh Yeah" by Swiss band Yello, once LaFontaine ignores Douglas and introduces Al Chalk.
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When Hal Douglas is heard phoning LaFontaine, the familiar intro to the "Theme from New York, New York" is heard on the music track as a subtle indication of Douglas' east coast management.
Lafontaine was born and brought up in Brunswick, the son of the court painter Ludolph Lafontaine and his fifth wife, the court maid-in-waiting Sophie Elisabeth Thorbrügge, and educated in Helmstedt, where he studied theology but took no degree.
Together with Jean-Baptiste Lully and others, De Lafontaine contributed to the development of Opera ballet.
His experience of the deception of Okey Sisters’ reputed speaking in tongues with Irving, and his knowledge of their later association with Elliotson and his mesmerism, and their well-attested fraudulent deception of Elliotson, must have strongly informed his later views of the activities of magnetists such as Lafontaine.