- CA QUA11643
- Person
- fl. 1942
H.P. Boucher was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
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Authority record- CA QUA00625
- Person
- 1868-1952
Henri Bourassa, journalist and politican, was born at Montreal, Quebec in 1868. He was educated by tutors, and became a journalist. He was a contributor to "Le Nationaliste," a journal published in Montreal; and in 1896 he was elected to represent Labelle as an independant Liberal in the House of Commons. He became a pronounced "Nationalist; and in 1910 he founded "Le Devoir," a Nationalist newspaper in Montreal, of which he became the editor-in-chief, continuing as editor until he broke with many of the Nationalists, and resigned from the paper in 1932. In 1907 he resigned from the House of Commons so he could sit in the Quebec Legislative Assembly. He remained in the Assembly from 1908 to 1912. He sat once again in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1935, when he was defeated in his old constituency, Labelle. Bourassa was an outstanding political figure, and a first-rate orator. He also published many pamphlets on political questions, in both French and English. Henri Bourassa died at Outremont, Quebec, on August 30, 1952.
- CA QUA00626
- Person
- 1823-1917
Mackenzie Bowell was born on December 7, 1823, at Suffolk, England. he came to Canada with his parents in 1832 and became a printer's apprentice in the office of the Belleville Intelligencer, a newspaper of which he was later to become the editor and proprietor. In 1847 he married Harriet Louisa Moore of Belleville.
Early in his life Bowell joined the Orange Order and served as Grand Master of the Orange Lodge of Ontario and as Grand Master of the Orange Association of British America. In 1867 he was elected to the House of Commons and served as Conservative representative for the Riding of North Hasting until 1892. Appointed Minister of Customs in 1878 by Sir John A. Macdonald, Bowell was largely responsible for putting the "National Policy" into operation. Early in 1892 he was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence and later the same year became Minister of Trade and Commerce, a position he held until 1894. In 1894, following the death of Sir John Thompson, Bowell was sworn in as Prime Minister, only to resign in early 1896 after several members of his cabinet also resigned. He remained Opposition Leader in the senate until his retirement in 1907. He died at Belleville on december 10, 1917.
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