Wilfred Laurier: A Pledge for Canada

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

A review of Wilfred Laurier: A Pledge For Canada by Roderick Stewart

Published on October 1, 2002

Wilfred Laurier: A Pledge For Canada
Roderick Stewart

XYZ Publishing
$15.95
paper
1-894852-00-1

Readers learn about the journey of Canada’s first French-Canadian and Roman Catholic prime minister from his small Quebec village to Parliament. They also discover that despite challenges, Laurier worked his whole life to keep his pledge of creating a peaceful, harmonious, and united Canada. This is one of the latest in XYZ’s The Quest Library series of Canadian biographies. mRb

Carol-Ann Hoyte is the Quebec English-language regional coordinator for TD Canadian Children's Book Week and organizer of monthly mixers for Montreal anglophone children's book authors and illustrators.

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