Wilfrid Laurier Contribution

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Sir Wilfrid Laurier is one of the greatest politicians in Canadian history. He was born on November 20, 1841 to a poor family (Clippingdale 1979, 12). Most Canadians love him because he made Canada into a liberal country. In a speech he said, “Canada is free and freedom is its nationality” (Bowen, Lunn m and Rigelhof 2002, 78). Because of this, Canadians respected him a lot which also supported him to do more contributions for this country. In addition, Laurier served the country for 15 years as the Prime Minister of Canada. He was also the leader of the Canadian Liberal Party which was established by him. Sir Wilfrid Laurier attracted my attention a lot because he was a gritty person when he was only a teenager, he was also a modest politician and he did many contributions for education. Laurier was born to a poor family but he always worked hard and he was a really gritty child…show more content…
It made the gap between French Canada and English Canada smaller. In addition, he set up many policies of education in many places. Nowadays there are many schools named Wilfrid Laurier such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School, Wilfrid Laurier University and Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School (Bowen, Lunn and Rigelhof 2002, 66). That’s also the reason why I think he is a great person. He was totally different from other politicians because he did not only focus on his political achievements but also cared for the poor people. He was poor when he was young so he knew how important education was. As a French-Canadian he wanted to make his hometown better. All the French- Canadians were proud of Laurier because he did so many educational contributions for

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