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...year-old Mackenzie King serves out his term, he will have been Prime Minister for 19 years, not quite so long as Sir John Macdonald but five years longer than the late great Liberal leader, Sir Wilfred Laurier, whose protege...
...Wilfred Laurier began to watch William Lyon Mackenzie King as early as 1900, when he learned that the young man had entered the civil service (as Deputy Minister of Labor) in preparation for a public career. Up to that time Mackenzie King had been headed for social service. After graduating from the University of Toronto and Harvard he had studied social conditions in Europe, done social work under Jane Addams at Chicago's Hull House. But his grandfather had led an abortive rebellion against the British in upper Canada, and Sir Wilfred thought the grandson had the stuff...
...rate, a touring, Lithuanian-born U. S. wrestler named Carl Pojello met him in Singapore in 1936 in Le Laurier bar. One handshake was enough for Pojello. He took the Angel to Paris, taught him all he knew about the U. S. catch-as-catch-can, or British "all-in," wrestling business. Since then, in 140 matches in six countries, according to uncontradicted reports, the Angel has been unbeatable...
Probably the greatest Prime Minister in our history was Sir Wilfrid Laurier, than whom no finer example of British-French-Canadianism is extant...
...Canadian Prime Ministers since 1867 only French Canadian was Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896 to 1911). British to the core, he spoke French with an English accent, English with a French accent...