Chapter 8 St-Laurent

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Tables x
4. Foreword xii
5. Acknowledgments xiv
6. Introduction 3
7. Style
8. St-Laurent in Government 23
9. Grandpapa 55
10. The Predominant Prime Minister 72
11. Uncle Lou, Both Old and New 89
12. St-Laurent and the Age of Bureaucracy 115
13. Structure
14. Thinking Confederation 133
15. The Liminality of St-Laurent’s Intergovernmental Relations Strategy 156
16. St-Laurent 173
17. Defence, Development, and Inuit 193
18. “But There Is Another Source of Liberty and Vitality in Our Country” 222
19. St-Laurent and Modern Provincial Equality 243
20. St-Laurent and the Modernization of the State 261
21. The Cautious Liberal 281
22. Substance
23. St-Laurent, Quebec, and the French Fact 299
24. The Politics of St-Laurent on the Crown, Rituals, and Symbols 314
25. St-Laurent, Judging, Justice, and the Death Penalty in the Shadow of the Cold War 336
26. In Search of the St-Laurent Voting Coalition 356
27. Winning Words 383
28. “The Greatest Period…Canada Has Had” 412
29. The Slow Evolution of Indian Policy during the St-Laurent Years 431
30. St-Laurent’s Gray Lecture and Canadian Citizenship in History 450
31. A Voyage of Discovery 466
32. Postscript 485
33. Contributors 488
34. Index 494