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Louis Stephen St. Laurent PC CC QC (Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent; February 1, 1882 – July 25, 1973) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.
Feb 17, 2009 · Louis Stephen St-Laurent, prime minister 1948–57, lawyer, politician (born 1 February 1882 in Compton, Québec; died 25 July 1973 in Québec City). Under St-Laurent’s leadership, Canada extended old-age pensions, enacted hospital insurance and approved provincial equalization payments.
Louis Saint Laurent was a Canadian statesman and jurist who, as Liberal prime minister in 1948–57, helped to maintain Canadian unity and to bring about reforms. Saint Laurent studied at St. Charles College (Sherbrooke) and at Laval University (Quebec). He was called to the bar in 1905 and became.
Dubbed “Uncle Louis” for his gentle, square style, Louis St. Laurent was an icon of the relative peace and prosperity that defined Canadian society in the aftermath of World War II (1939-1945). Though his tenure is not widely remembered today, the St. Laurent years were actually a time of quite substantial foreign, domestic, and ...
Louis St-Laurent (1882-1973), Prime Minister of Canada. Author: Matthew Farfan. To date, Louis S. St-Laurent is the only Canadian Prime Minister born in the Eastern Townships. His life began in Compton in 1882. St-Laurent's parents, a French Canadian father and an Irish mother, ran a general store and were of modest means.
May 11, 2018 · Louis Stephen St. Laurent (born 1882) was a Canadian statesman. He was prime minister and leader of the Liberal party of Canada, and during his efficient government Canada experienced an economic boom.
Senior Principal Oceanographer. Email. lstlaurent@apl.uw.edu. Research Interests. Model Parameterization, Internal Tides, Abyssal Circulation, Ocean Energetics. Biosketch. Louis St. Laurent's research focuses on the influence of small-scale physical phenomena on the large-scale ocean circulation.
