Author: Oscar D. Skelton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-19

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781397292490

Excerpt from The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Times Ubalde, who became a physician and died Arthabaska in 1898 Charlemagne, a m chant in St Lin and later member for 't county at Ottawa, who lived until 1907; a Henri, the prothonotary at Arthabaska, w passed away in 1906. Carolus Laurier hi: self lived on in his little village home for years after the birth of his eldest son, and l wife lived nearly twenty years longer. It was a quiet, strength-shaping count home in which the future statesman's boyho was cast. The little village was off the beat track of travel not yet had the railway join it to the river front. There were few distre tions to excite or dissipate youthful energi Roaming amid the brooding silence of hills, fishing for trout, hunting partridges rabbits, and joining in the simple vil games, the boy took his boyish pleasures built for his manhood's calm and power. Home had an intellectual atmosphere q out of the ordinary, and it enjoyed a measure of that grace or native courtesy wh is not least among Quebec's contributions the common Canadian stock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.