The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . on and support of ]\fr. F. D. , and other French-CanadianConservatives. It is not my intention to discuss inthis article the merits of the Navyquestion or to deal with events fromany party viewpoint. My object is ^oexplain from the utterances of its re-sponsible and accredited representa-tives what the Nationalist movementmeans and to give a pen picture of itsleader and of some of those most con-spicuously identified with the move-ment. And first as to its leader. The ques-tion was recently put
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . on and support of ]\fr. F. D. , and other French-CanadianConservatives. It is not my intention to discuss inthis article the merits of the Navyquestion or to deal with events fromany party viewpoint. My object is ^oexplain from the utterances of its re-sponsible and accredited representa-tives what the Nationalist movementmeans and to give a pen picture of itsleader and of some of those most con-spicuously identified with the move-ment. And first as to its leader. The ques-tion was recently put to me by afriend from Ontario—a man of prom-inence and influence: What kind ofa man is Bourassa and what does hereally stand for? Let me now tryto answer that question as fullv aswill be possible within the limitedspace of a maeazine article. Themain facts of Mr. Bourassas publiccareer are tolerably well known to allCanadians. Born in Montreal in son of Nanoleon Bourassa. an em-inent French-Canadian author andpainter, who mamed a daughter ofLouis .Josepb Papineau, the great. MK. HEiNKI BOURASSA, LKADEK OF THE NATlUiNALlHT MUVKIMtNl French-Canadian statesman and trib-une. Henri Bourassa was educatedby private tuition in his native 1886 he removed to Montebello,so long the home of his distinguishedgrandfather. Mr. Bourassa was Mayorof Montebello from 1890 to 1894 andin 1897 was elected Mayor of Papin-eauville. At the general election of1896 he was elected as a Liberal torepresent Labelle in the House ofCommons, but resigned his seat in1899 in order to vindicate the positionhe had taken on the constitutionalaspect of the participation of Canada 261 in the South African war. He was re-elected by acclamation and was againreturned at the general elections of1900 and 1904. He subsequently leftthe Federal arena to enter Quebecpolitics, and in the provincial generalelection of 1908 he was returned bothby St. James (Montreal) and St. Hy-acinthe. defeating in the forme
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