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Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers

Text in English and French on inverted pages. on added t.p., inverted: Lieux de sépulture des premiers ministres du Canada. ISBN 0-662-65496-X Cat. No. R64-216/2001

1. Prime Ministers – Canada – Tombs. 2. Prime Ministers – Canada – Biography. 3. Sepulchral monuments – Canada. I. Historic Sites and Monuments Boards of Canada. II. Title. III. Title: Lieux de sépulture des premiers ministres du Canada.

FC215.M66 2001 971’.00’99 C2001-980043-6E F1010.M66 2001

Text by Christopher Moore Graphic Design by Suzanne St-Germain

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Chief Executive Officer of , 2009.

Cover - Heritage Recording Services (HRS) Page 4 - HRS; NAC, PA-43133 Inside Cover - HRS; National Archives of Canada (NAC), C-16741 Page 5 - HRS; NAC, PA-26308 Page 1 - HRS Page 6 - HRS; NAC, PA-26320 Page 2 - HRS Page 7 - HRS; NAC, PA-27084 Page 3 - Macdonald: NAC, PA-27013 Page 8 - HRS; NAC, PA-27160 - Mackenzie: NAC, PA-26308 Page 9 - HRS; NAC, PA-25930 - Abbott: NAC, PA-33933 Page 10 - HRS; NAC, C-16741 - Thompson: NAC, C-698 Page 11 - HRS; NAC, PA-117658 - Bowell: NAC, PA-27159 Page 12 - HRS; NAC, PA-26987 - Tupper: NAC, PA-27743 Page 13 - HRS; NAC, C-90385 - Laurier: NAC, C-1971 Page 14 - HRS; NAC, PA-52380 - Borden: NAC, PA-28128 Page 15 - HRS; NAC, C-8099 - Meighen: NAC, PA-26987 Page 16 - HRS; NAC, PA-57930 - King: NAC, C-27645 Page 17 - HRS; NAC, PA-117624 - Bennett: NAC, C-687 Page 18 - Les Productions La Fête, Jean Demers - St. Laurent: NAC, C-10461 Page 19 - Parks Canada - Diefenbaker: NAC, PA-130070 Inside Back - HRS; NAC, PA-25930 - Pearson: NAC, PA-126393 - Trudeau: Photo by Karsh, 1982, Comstock, Inc. National Program for the Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers

anada has been blessed by able he following elements are part of Cand dynamic prime ministers Tthe program: who have developed a vision for our ! nation and its place in the world. the preparation, in association Their public careers have had a with the family and the profound impact on our history and cemetery, of comprehensive evolution as a country. In conservation plans for each recognition of this contribution, our grave site to ensure that the sites deceased prime ministers have been are conserved for the future; designated as persons of national ! the installation of a Canadian historic significance. In addition, to flag at each grave site, as well as acknowledge their important role, in an information panel on the life 1999 the and accomplishments of the announced a program designed to prime minister, subject to the protect and honour the grave sites of approval of the family and our Canadian prime ministers. cemetery authorities; ! he objective of the National the organization of a ceremony TProgram for the Grave Sites of a t e a c h g r a v e s i t e t o Canadian Prime Ministers is to commemorate our deceased ensure that the grave sites are prime ministers; conserved and recognized in a ! the preparation of this brochure respectful and dignified manner. to highlight the contributions of Another important objective of the our prime ministers and to program is to provide increase the awareness of their with information on the lives and grave sites; accomplishments of each former ! the establishment of a website prime minister, as well as the with links to National Historic locations of their final resting places. S i t e s o f C a n a d a t h a t commemorate prime ministers, as well as to other prime ministers’ web sites.

1 The Office of Prime Minister in Canada

he office of prime minister is not rime ministers are not always Tmentioned in Canada’s founding Pchosen by general elections. If the constitution, the British party in office changes leaders, the new Act of 1867. Yet the prime minister has party leader becomes prime minister always stood at the heart of Canadian automatically. In the end, however, government. general elections decide which party will dominate the House of Commons, n our parliamentary democracy, so a successful prime minister must ICanada’s governor general acts, also be a strong party leader. Many with very few exceptions, on the prime ministers have been dynamic advice given by ministers who hold the public campaigners, able to rally support of the people’s elected support among Canadian voters. representatives in the House of Commons. The key to that system has ome prime ministers have held always been the prime minister. In Soffice for years, others for just theory, the prime minister may be an weeks. All have faced the challenge of anonymous adviser. In fact, he or she trying to administer the government, is the public face of power in Canada. control business in , and lead the nation. he prime minister leads the team Tof ministers, called the , ir John A. Macdonald said, which runs the government of Canada S“Canada is a hard country to on a day-to-day basis. The govern.” A century later, another government’s survival depends upon prime minister, Lester Pearson, support from Parliament, so a prime recalled those words and added, “I am minister will also lead one of the perhaps more aware of that than I used political parties represented in the to be.” House of Commons in .

Before 1968, prime ministers of Canada were customarily invited to join the Privy Council of Great Britain, a position which carried with it the lifetime title of “Right Honourable.” Prime ministers who were members only of the Canadian Privy Council were titled “Honourable.” Today, all prime ministers are designated “Right Honourable” for life from the moment they assume office.

2 Terms of Office

The Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, 1 July 1867 - 5 November 1873, 17 October 1878 - 6 June 1891 Sir John A. Macdonald Alexander Mackenzie (1815-1891) (1822-1892) The Honourable Alexander Mackenzie, 7 November 1873 - 8 October 1878

The Honourable Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, 16 June 1891 - 24 November 1892

The Right Honourable The Honourable The Right Honourable Sir John Joseph Sir John Sparrow Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Caldwell Abbott David Thompson 5 December 1892 - 12 December 1894 (1821-1893) (1845-1894) The Honourable Sir , 21 December 1894 - 27 April 1896 The Right Honourable Sir , 1 May 1896 - 8 July 1896 The Honourable The Right Honourable Sir Mackenzie Bowell Sir Charles Tupper The Right Honourable (1823-1917) (1821-1915) Sir , 11 July 1896 - 6 October 1911

The Right Honourable Sir Robert Laird Borden, 10 October 1911 - 10

The Right Honourable The Right Honourable The Right Honourable , Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir Robert Laird Borden (1841-1919) (1854-1937) 10 July 1920 - 29 , 29 - 25 September 1926

The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King, 29 December 1921 - 28 June 1926, 25 September 1926 - 7 August 1930, 23 October 1935 - 15 November 1948

The Right Honourable The Right Honourable The Right Honourable Arthur Meighen William Lyon Richard Bedford Bennett, (1874-1960) Mackenzie King (later ), (1874-1950) 7 August 1930 - 23 October 1935

The Right Honourable Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 15 November 1948 - 21 June 1957

The Right Honourable

John George Diefenbaker, The Right Honourable The Right Honourable 21 June 1957 - 22 April 1963 Richard Bedford Bennett Louis Stephen St. Laurent (1870-1947) (1882-1973) The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson, 22 April 1963 - 20 April 1968

The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 20 April 1968 - 21 May 1979 3 March 1980 - 30 June 1984 The Right Honourable The Right Honourable The Right Honourable John George Diefenbaker Lester Bowles Pearson Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1895-1979) (1897-1972) (1919-2000)

3 The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald

Born on January 11, 1815, , Died on June 6, 1891, Ottawa, Buried at Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario

anada’s first prime minister, Sir visionary statesman and a CJohn A. Macdonald, has always Ad e t e r m i n e d C o n s e r v a t i v e been ranked among the country’s great partisan, Macdonald was a brilliant political leaders. parliamentary tactician and a much- loved campaign leader. He said he intended to see the gristle of a nation orn in Scotland and raised near harden into bone, and he believed a BKingston, Ontario, Macdonald strong central government was was already a political veteran in 1864, essential to Canada. His National when he played a key role in the Policy of tariff protection, westward m a k i n g o f t h e C a n a d i a n expansion, and a railway to the Pacific Confederation. He was the undis- h e l p e d l a y t h e b a s i s f o r a puted choice to be the first prime transcontinental nation. minister. “Sir John A.” held the office from July 1, 1867 until 1873, and again from 1878 until his death in 1891. ir John A. Macdonald died in SOttawa in 1891 and was buried in Kingston.

4 The Honourable Alexander Mackenzie

Born on January 28, 1822, near Dunkeld, Scotland Died on April 17, 1892, , Ontario Buried at Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia, Ontario

n immigrant from Scotland tireless worker, Mackenzie Awho left school at thirteen, Astrove to reform and A l e x a n d e r M a c k e n z i e simplify the machinery of prospered as a stonemason government. He introduced and contractor in Sarnia, the secret ballot, created the O n t a r i o . A l i f e l o n g , reformer, he believed and struggled with the thrift, hard work, and challenges of the national plain speaking were the railway. In the 1878 keys to success, in politics election, his party lost to and in life. Macdonald’s resurgent Conservatives and their of tariff hen the Pacific protection. Mackenzie WScandal brought soon resigned as leader of down John A. Macdonald’s the opposition. True to his Conservative government in humble, hard-working ways, 1873, Mackenzie formed he declined all offers of a Canada’s first Liberal cabinet. His knighthood. party won the general election that followed and he held the office of prime minister until 1878. lexander Mackenzie held his seat Ain the House of Commons until his death. He died in Toronto in 1892 and was buried in Sarnia.

5 The Honourable Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott

Born on March 12, 1821, Saint-André-Est, Died on October 30, 1893, Montréal, Quebec Buried at , Montréal, Quebec

n 1891 declared, “I hate hen Macdonald died in office, Ipolitics.” Yet that year he became WSenator Abbott reluctantly , after more accepted the plea of the divided than thirty years of political activity. Conservative Party that he should lead the government. In his eighteen months in office, he revitalized the bbott was a successful lawyer, a government and the party. When his Apillar of Montréal’s English health failed in 1892, he retired to business community, and mayor of private life and died less than a year Montréal. After long service in the later. House of Commons, he was appointed to the in 1887 and joined Sir John A. Macdonald’s cabinet ir John Abbott, the first Canadian- that year. Valued for his legal and Sborn prime minister, is buried in administrative skills, he soon became Montréal. one of its leading members.

6 The Right Honourable Sir John Sparrow David Thompson

Born on November 10, 1845, Halifax, Died on December 12, 1894, Windsor Castle, England Buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

ohn Thompson was a new prime hompson had been raised a Jm i n i s t e r w i t h a r e c o r d o f TMethodist but converted to achievement and a promising future Roman Catholicism, the faith of his when he died suddenly in 1894. He wife, Annie, in 1871. Controversy over was just forty-nine years old. his conversion kept Thompson out of the prime minister’s office when Macdonald died but, upon John hompson had served briefly as Abbott’s retirement eighteen months Tpremier of Nova Scotia before later, Thompson became the first being appointed to the Nova Scotia Catholic prime minister in Canada. Supreme Court. When John A. Macdonald recruited him to Ottawa in 1885, he quickly became a leading ir John Thompson died December member of the Co nservat ive S12, 1894, at Windsor Castle, where government. His achievements had just made him a included the first Criminal Code of member of her Privy Council. He is Canada. buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Halifax.

7 The Honourable Sir Mackenzie Bowell

Born on December 27, 1823, Rickinghall, Suffolk, England Died on December 10, 1917, Belleville, Ontario Buried at Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Ontario

ackenzie Bowell’s family c o m p e t e n t , h a rd w o r k i n g Memigrated from England to Aadministrator, Bowell remained Belleville, Ontario, where he in cabinet when he became a senator in apprenticed on the local newspaper. 1892. His visit to in 1893 led He became a successful printer and to the first conference of British publisher and a prominent figure in the colonies and territories, held in Ottawa , which made him in 1894. As the government’s most Canadian grandmaster in 1870. senior minister, Bowell became prime Elected to the House of Commons in minister when Sir John Thompson died 1867, Bowell joined the Conservative suddenly in December 1894. In office, cabinet in 1878. Bowell struggled with dissent in his party. When seven cabinet ministers deserted him early in 1896, Bowell denounced them as “a nest of traitors.” They soon returned but, with elections looming, Bowell agreed to retire.

ir Mackenzie Bowell was ninety- Sthree and still a senator when he died in 1917 in Belleville, where he is buried.

8 The Right Honourable Sir Charles Tupper

Born on July 2, 1821, Amherst, Nova Scotia Died on October 30, 1915, Bexleyheath, England Buried at St. John’s Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

ir Charles Tupper’s public career upper later served as one of Prime Swas long and successful, though TMinister John A. Macdonald’s key he served as prime minister in 1896 cabinet colleagues and political for just sixty-nine days – the partners. In 1895, he returned shortest term ever. A Father of from service as Canada’s Confederation, he spent more representative in Britain and than thirty years in national replaced Mackenzie Bowell as politics. Conservative Party leader and prime minister the following May. Despite his ova Scotian by birth, vigorous campaigning, his NT u p p e r s t u d i e d party lost the election that medicine in Scotland and soon followed. practised as a doctor most of his life. He entered Nova Scotian politics in 1855 and ir Charles Tupper retired became in 1864. As a Sfrom politics in 1901. He died delegate to the , in Britain at the age of ninety-four Québec, and conferences, and was buried in Halifax. Tupper guided his province into Confederation despite powerful anti- confederate opposition.

9 The Right Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Born on November 20, 1841, Saint-Lin, Quebec Died on February 17, 1919, Ottawa, Ontario Buried at Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario

ne of Canada’s great leaders and aurier led Canada in a period of Othe first francophone prime Lrapid growth, industrialization, minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier believed and immigration. His passionately in Canada as an English- government established French partnership. “I have had before the provinces of me as a pillar of fire,” he said, “a policy A l b e r t a a n d of true Canadianism, of moderation, of Saskatchewan in reconciliation.” 1905. Throughout his career, he faced repeated lways distinguished by his challenges to his Adebonair charm and intellect, v i s i o n o f Laurier was first elected to the House Canada, but he of Commons in 1874. There, Laurier said he preferred gradually built up the strength of the “sunny ways” Liberal Party and his personal o v e r s t o r m y following in Quebec and elsewhere in conflicts. Canada. He led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, and served as prime minister until 1911. ir Wilfrid Laurier Sdied, still leader of the opposition, in 1919 and was buried in Ottawa.

10 The Right Honourable Sir Robert Laird Borden

Born on June 26, 1854, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia Died on June 10, 1937, Ottawa, Ontario Buried at Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario

successful Halifax lawyer from n the First World War, Borden Ahumble origins, Icommitted Canada to provide half a led the Conservative Party back to million soldiers for the war effort. His power and guided Canada through the determination to meet that huge grim years of the First World War. commitment led to the conscription crisis in 1917, which split the country on linguistic lines. However, the war orden became leader of the effort also enabled Canada to assert Bopposition in 1901 and slowly itself in world affairs, and Borden rebuilt his party. In the 1911 election, played a crucial role in transforming Borden swept to power, campaigning the into a partnership of against Laurier’s plan for equal states. with the .

onvinced that Canada had Cb e c o m e a n a t i o n o n t h e battlefields of , Sir Robert Borden retired as prime minister in 1920. He died in Ottawa in 1937 and was buried there.

11 The Right Honourable Arthur Meighen

Born on June 16, 1874, Anderson, Ontario Died on August 5, 1960, Toronto, Ontario Buried at St. Marys Cemetery, St. Marys, Ontario

rthur Meighen, Canada’s ninth fter the election of 1925, no party Aprime minister, was gifted with a Aheld a clear majority, and Prime strong intellect and sharp debating Minister King’s government fell in skills. He served two short periods as mid-1926. Meighen and his party prime minister, first in 1920-21, and formed a government, but they were then in 1926. swept from power in the election that soon followed. Meighen resigned as Conservative Party leader. He later aised in Ontario, Meighen served in the Senate and made a brief Rprospered in legal practice in return to elective politics in 1942. . He was elected to Parliament in 1908 and joined Sir Robert Borden’s cabinet in 1913. rthur Meighen died in Toronto in Meighen quickly became invaluable to A1960 and was buried in St. Marys, the Conservative government. He near his southern Ontario birthplace. developed complex wartime policies and was relentless in debate with the government’s critics. In 1920, he succeeded Borden as prime minister, but his party lost the general election of 1921.

12 The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King

Born on December 17, 1874, Kitchener (formerly Berlin), Ontario Died on July 22, 1950, Kingsmere, Quebec Buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario

anada’s longest-serving prime hough he cherished the memory of Cm i n i s t e r a n d p e rh a p s i t s This rebel grandfather, King was a shrewdest political tactician, William cautious politician who tailored his Lyon Mackenzie King held the prime policies to prevailing opinions. ministership for more than twenty-one “Parliament will decide,” he liked to years. say when pressed to act. King guided Canada through the Second World War, and he introduced social ing was born in Kitchener (then programs such as unemployment Kcalled Berlin), Ontario, and insurance and family allowances. studied at Toronto, Chicago, and King’s government also passed the Harvard universities. He was chosen Canadian Citizenship Act, and in Liberal Party leader at Canada’s first- January 1947 William Lyon Mackenzie ever party in King received the first-ever certificate 1919 and took power in the election of of Canadian citizenship. 1921. The general election of 1925 gave no party a clear majority, and King’s Liberals were briefly replaced by Arthur illiam Lyon Mackenzie King, Meighen’s Conservatives in 1926. Wwho had never married, died in Three months later, the Conservatives 1950 at his beloved home, Kingsmere, were defeated in the Commons, and near Ottawa. He was buried at Mount King swept back to power in the general Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. election that followed. Defeated by R.B. Bennett in the general election of 1930, King returned to office in 1935 and remained prime minister until his retirement in 1948.

13 The Right Honourable Richard Bedford Bennett

Born on July 3, 1870, Hopewell Hill, Died on June 26, 1947, Mickleham, Surrey, England Buried at the village churchyard, Mickleham, Surrey, England

.B. Bennett became prime minister n 1935, Bennett changed tactics, Rof Canada in 1930. The worst Iintroducing his “New Deal” of depression of the century was hitting p u b l i c s p e n d i n g a n d f e d e r a l the country, and economic conditions intervention in the economy. would blunt his prospects as prime Nevertheless, his Conservative Party minister. was swept away in that year’s election. Bennett retired to Britain and later sat in Britain’s as Viscount bachelor lawyer from New Bennett. ABrunswick who had prospered in , Bennett was elected to the House of Commons in 1911 and ichard Bedford Bennett died at became Conservative leader in 1927. RMickleham, England, in 1947 and After winning the federal election of was buried in the village churchyard 1930, Bennett tried to fight the there. He is the only Canadian prime depression by expanding trade within minister not buried in Canada. the British Empire. His success was limited, however, and Canadians began to link Bennett himself with the hard times.

14 The Right Honourable Louis Stephen St. Laurent

Born on February 1, 1882, Compton, Quebec Died on July 25, 1973, Québec, Quebec Buried at Saint Thomas d’Aquin Cemetery, Compton, Quebec

ecruited into politics during the t. Laurent’s cabinet team oversaw Rcrisis of the Second World War, SCanada’s expanding international Louis St. Laurent seemed almost above role in the postwar world, welcomed party politics as he administered Newfoundland into Confederation, Canada in the prosperous 1950s. and established new social and industrial policies. By 1957, however, both the prime minister and his o r n i n Q u e b e c ’ s e a s t e r n government began to appear worn- Btownships, Louis St. Laurent prac- out. The Liberals lost the general tised in the city of Québec and election that year, and St. Laurent soon became one of the country’s most retired. respected counsels. Needing strong ministers from Quebec, Prime Minister King recruited St. Laurent to his cabi- ouis Stephen St. Laurent died at net in 1941, then supported his LQuébec in 1973 and was buried in selection as the new Liberal leader and Compton, Quebec, his birthplace. prime minister in 1948. St. Laurent led his party to victory in the general elections of 1949 and 1953.

15 The Right Honourable John George Diefenbaker

Born on September 18, 1895, Neustadt, Ontario Died on August 16, 1979, Ottawa, Ontario Buried beside the Diefenbaker Canada Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

ohn Diefenbaker, a prairie populist rime Minister Diefenbaker Jand a spellbinding speaker, was Pintroduced the Bill of Rights, determined that all Canadians would promoted northern development, and be “unhyphenated Canadians.” In developed new export markets for 1958, he won the greatest electoral prairie wheat. Even after the defeat of victory in the ’s his government in 1963, Diefenbaker’s House of Commons. personal charisma made him loved by many Canadians, and he never lost his House of Commons seat. orn in Ontario, Bmoved to Saskatchewan as a child. After military service in the First World ohn Diefenbaker died in Ottawa in War, he became a successful defence J1979. Thousands saluted the train lawyer. In politics, he endured years of that brought his body home to be frustration before winning the buried in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. leadership of the Conservative Party in 1956. He unseated the Liberals in 1957 and won his great majority in 1958.

16 The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson

Born on April 23, 1897, Newton Brook, Ontario Died on December 27, 1972, Ottawa, Ontario Buried at MacLaren Cemetery, Wakefield, Quebec

career diplomat who had become earson never had a secure majority Aa politician, “Mike” Pearson Pin Parliament, but he implemented received the 1957 Nobel Peace important social programs, Prize for helping to resolve the including the Canada and Suez Crisis. The United Quebec Pension Plans and Nations Emergency Force u n i v e r s a l h e a l t h he had proposed became insurance. Pearson also t h e f i r s t o f m a n y introduced the maple leaf worldwide peacekeeping flag and new initiatives in assignments in which French-English relations. Canadian troops would Before retiring in 1968, he serve. Soon after, Pearson oversaw Canada’s 1967 became leader of the Liberal centennial celebrations. Party.

ester Pearson died in Ottawa in orn near Toronto, Pearson served L1972 and was buried near Bin the First World War and taught Wakefield, Quebec, in the Gatineau history at the hills. before launching the diplomatic career that led him into politics. Soon after he assumed the leadership of the Liberals in 1958, the party suffered one of its greatest electoral defeats. Pearson stayed on as opposition leader and led his party back to power in 1963.

17 The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Born on October 18, 1919, Montréal, Quebec Died on September 28, 2000, Montréal, Quebec Buried at Saint-Rémi Cemetery, Saint-Rémi, Quebec

or more than three decades, Pierre e d u c e d t o a m i n o r i t y i n FTrudeau fascinated and challenged RParliament in 1972, the Liberals Canadians with his vigorous intellect regained a majority in 1974. In 1979, and passion for public debate. His battered by inflation and other desire to paddle against the current economic troubles, they narrowly lost made him no stranger to controversy, to ’s Conservatives. Trudeau stimulating friend and foe alike and briefly retired, but he returned to leaving few indifferent to his presence. power in the 1980 election. He then attained a previously elusive goal, the rudeau was a widely-travelled repatriation of Canada’s constitution Tintellectual when he entered and the entrenchment of the Canadian politics in 1963. Five years later, public Charter of Rights and Freedoms, before enthusiasm for his bilingual charm and retiring in 1984. unconventional generated “Trudeaumania,” which carried him to ierre Elliott Trudeau’s declaration the leadership of the Liberal Party and Pthat “Canada must be a just the Prime Minister’s Office. Never society” influenced a generation, and wavering from his vision of Canada as his death inspired a huge outpouring a strong united federation with of grief and tribute. He was interred at equality among provinces and Saint-Rémi, Quebec. guaranteed rights for individuals, Trudeau was determined to secure a full and equal place for all Canadians in a bilingual, multicultural Canada. He fought a long contest against the ideas of the Parti Québécois, which f o r m e d Q u e b e c ’ s p r o v i n c i a l government in 1976, and he won a decisive victory in the 1980 referendum in Quebec.

18 For Additional Information

If you would like additional information Louis S. St. Laurent National Historic Site regarding the National Program for the of Canada Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers, Commemorating the Boyhood Home of please contact: Canada’s Twelfth Prime Minister 6 Principale Street South Bellevue House National Historic Site of Canada Executive Secretary Compton, Quebec J0B 1L0 Historic Sites and Monuments Board Telephone: (819) 835-5448 or of Canada 1-800-463-6769 5th Floor, 25 Eddy Street Fax: (819) 835-9101 Hull, Quebec K1A 0M5 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (819) 997-4059 Fax: (819) 953-4909 Woodside National Historic Site E-mail: [email protected] of Canada The Boyhood Home of William Lyon Mackenzie You may also wish to visit some King homes of our former prime ministers: 528 Wellington Street North Kitchener, Ontario N2H 5L5 Bellevue House National Historic Site Telephone: (519) 571-5684 of Canada Fax: (519) 571-5686 Laurier House National Historic Site of Canada Commemorating Canada’s E-mail: [email protected] First Prime Minister - Sir John A. Macdonald Sir Wilfrid Laurier National Historic Site 35 Centre Street of Canada Kingston, Ontario K7L 4E5 Commemorating Sir Wilfrid Laurier Telephone: (613) 545-8666 P.O. Box 70 TDD/Voice: (613) 545-8668 205 12th Avenue Fax: (613) 545-8721 Laurentides, Quebec J0R 1C0 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (450) 439-3702 Fax: (450) 439-5721 Laurier House National Historic Site E-mail: [email protected] of Canada The Home of Prime Minister Laurier and Prime Minister King 335 Laurier Avenue East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6R4 Louis S. St. Laurent National Historic Site of Canada Telephone: (613) 992-8142 Fax: (613) 947-4851 E-mail: [email protected]

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