the Liberal Party of Canada split into two factions. To differentiate the groups, historians tend to use two retrospective names: The Laurier Liberals, who...
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Unionist Party, and instead created the "Laurier Liberals", a party composed of Liberals opposed to conscription. Laurier also rejected Prime Minister Borden's...
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against the anti-conscription faction of the Liberal Party, which ran under the name Laurier Liberals. As well, Independent, Labour and Socialist candidates...
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(1867–1942) Laurier Liberals List of political parties in Canada Lloyd George ministry, contemporary UK government supported by most Conservative and Liberal MPs...
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Conscription Crisis of 1917. The party had divided into Laurier Liberals, who remained in opposition, and a Liberal–Unionist faction which joined the wartime Union...
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Liberals were voted out five years later due to the economic conditions at the time. They would not come back to office until 1896; Wilfrid Laurier was...
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Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals in the House of Commons of Canada. In the 1917 federal election on conscription, Verville ran and was re-elected as a Laurier-Liberal...
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one Liberal-Labour Member of Parliament. * In 1917, some Liberals ran under the Unionist banner, figures only count those who ran as "Laurier Liberals" Bickerton...
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Party split between those Liberals who supported the Borden government's policy of conscription, and the Liberals led by Laurier, who opposed it. The election...
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Joseph Archambault (category Liberal Party of Canada MPs)
represent the riding of Chambly—Verchères. He joined the anti-conscription Laurier Liberals on March 18, 1918 and was re-elected in the 1921 election. Joseph Archambault...
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Laurier—Outremont was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1935. This riding...
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supporters of the Conservative Party move to the Liberals. The most important change was Laurier's support of the National Policy, an important cause...
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of Liberal MPs. In the 1917 election, many Liberals ran as Liberal–Unionists or Unionists against the Laurier Liberals. After the war, most Liberal–Unionists...
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Ernest Lapointe (category Laurier Liberals)
justice, and served in that position until the Liberals' defeat at the polls in 1930. However, the Liberals under King returned back to power in the 1935...
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France, notary, surveyor Guerard des Lauriers, Catholic theologian and bishop Laurier Liberals, those Liberals (including Sir Wilfrid) who did not take...
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the "Laurier Liberals" until 1922. Even then, they refused to officially re-align themselves with the federal party.[citation needed] The Liberals were...
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on Laurier in Quebec aided in the election of the Conservatives, who held policies that were more staunchly imperialist than those of the Liberals. In...
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Alexander Warburton (category Liberal Party of Canada MPs)
Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), but lost his seat in the 1911 election that defeated the Laurier Liberals. He attempted to return...
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Rodolphe Lemieux (category Laurier Liberals)
opposed conscription and supported Laurier during the Conscription Crisis of 1917. When Mackenzie King led the Liberals back to power in the 1921 election...
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Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal Party of Canada was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term in government with a majority government. The Liberals lost four...
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Conservative 13th 1917–1921 Émmanuel d'Anjou Opposition (Laurier Liberals) 14th 1921–1924 Liberal 1924–1925 Eugène Fiset 15th 1925–1926 16th 1926–1930...
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telephones. In the 1908 federal election, Laurier's Liberals won for the fourth consecutive time. However, the Liberals experienced a drop in support as they...
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Laurier—Sainte-Marie (French pronunciation: [lɔʁje sɛ̃tmaʁi]) is a federal electoral district in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which has been represented...
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Party are the only parties to have formed a government, although often the Liberals and historic Conservatives have led in a minority government or a coalition...
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Jules-Édouard Prévost (category Laurier Liberals)
the Terrebonne riding under the Laurier Liberals in the 1917 general election. After this, he was re-elected as a Liberal in 1921, 1925 and 1926. During...
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e 1917 Canadian federal election Party Candidate Votes Opposition (Laurier Liberals) William Henry White 3,626 Government (Unionist) James Bismark Holden...
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Canada of the 10th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier led the Liberal Party of Canada to a third term in government, with an increased...
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Alphonse Verville (category Laurier Liberals)
supporter of the Liberals and was often billed as a Liberal-Labour MP. In his re-election contests he was supported by the Liberals who ran no candidate...
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Alfred Leduc (category Laurier Liberals)
Canada as a Laurier Liberal from 1917 to 1921 and Montréal–Saint-Henri in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1927 to 1931 as a Liberal. His name appears...
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Wilfrid Laurier (1877–1919), senior Cabinet member Ernest Lapointe (1919–1941) and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (1942–1958). With Laurier serving...
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