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7 unusual facts about Wilfrid Laurier


Charles Kingsmill

At the behest of then Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, he accepted the post of director of the Marine Service in the Department of Marine and Fisheries under then Minister of Marine and Fisheries Louis-Philippe Brodeur.

Émilie Barthe

Émilie Barthe (March 26, 1849 - May 10, 1930) was a Canadian most widely known for the rumours of having an intimate relationship with Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier began to realize the potential damage of the rumours, he returned Barthe's letters to her and in 1901, he positioned Joseph Lavergne from Ottawa to Montreal.

Armand Renaud Lavergne is widely thought to be the illegitimate son between Émilie Barthe and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

HMCS Canada

The resolution was not successful; however, on 12 January 1910, the government of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier took the resolution and introduced it as the Naval Service Bill.

Peter MacKinnon Building

Prime Minister of Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier laid the cornerstone of the first under construction building on campus, the College Building, on July 29, 1910.

Saint-Claud

The commune is partly the ancestral home of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911 (Laurier's ancestor was François Cottineau, who left his home named Champlaurier, located between the villages of Saint-Claud and Nieuil, for New France in 1677 as the member of the Régiment de Carignan-Salières).


1978 CFL Draft

Hamilton Tiger-Cats Bruce Holland DT Wilfrid Laurier

Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty

In 1911 the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier succeeded in signing a reciprocity treaty with American president William Howard Taft.

CFL Evaluation Camp

Shamawd Chambers, wide receiver from Wilfrid Laurier led all athletes running an electronically timed 4.42 40-yard dash.

Confederation Square

Two prime ministers had promoted the beautification of the capital city, Wilfrid Laurier from 1896-1911 and William Lyon Mackenzie King whose first term began in 1921.

Connaught Building

The Connaught Building was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1990, on the basis that the building is a testament to Sir Wilfrid Laurier's, (1841-1919), served 1896-1911, (Canada's first "francophone" Prime Minister) commitment to the enhancement of architecture in Canada's capital, and as it is one of the best works of David Ewart, (1841-1921).

Thomas Robert McInnes

Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier had finally become exhausted with McInnes and requested the Governor-General (The Earl of Minto) replace him with Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, a cabinet minister from Quebec.


see also

1979 CFL Draft

37. Toronto Argonauts Mark Forsyth DB Wilfrid Laurier

Buttonville Public School

In September 2007, the French immersion program relocated from Buttonville P.S. to a newly built French immersion school, Sir Wilfrid Laurier PS, located east of Woodbine Avenue north of Elgin Mills Road south of Major Mackenzie Drive.

John Weir

John Angus Weir (1930–2007), fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University