Louis St. Laurent
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Louis St. Laurent 🇨🇦

Louis-Stephen St. Laurent (Known as "Uncle Louis")
Twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (1948–1957), Co-founder of NATO, Jurist
Born Feb 01, 1882 🇨🇦 Compton (Quebec), Canada
Passed Away Jul 25, 1973 Quebec City, Canada
Lifespan 91 years old
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Distinguished jurist and post-war Prime Minister known as 'Uncle Louis' who presided over post-war prosperity, brought Newfoundland into Confederation (1949), and was a principal co-architect of NATO.

Biographical Record

Bilingual son of a French Canadian merchant and Irish mother, St. Laurent was president of the Canadian Bar Association when Mackenzie King drafted him into cabinet as Minister of Justice in 1941. Succeeding King as Prime Minister in 1948, his grandfatherly demeanor concealed a decisive, modernizing executive.

St. Laurent completed Canadian territorial Confederation by welcoming Newfoundland as Canada's tenth province on March 31, 1949. He championed the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the Trans-Canada Pipeline, while co-authoring the North Atlantic Treaty that established NATO.

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Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin Cemetery
Compton (Quebec), Canada
GPS: 45.2417, -71.8250
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