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When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)
The formidable Château Laurier, (1912) a railway hotel on the north side of the square, is built in the Renaissance castle style much favored by the C.P.R.
But Laurier saw the limits of British support when the British and American negotiators of the Alaska boundary tamely accepted the US claims to a southern coastal “panhandle,” which denied Canada sea access to the Yukon goldfields.
Elegant, witty, and cosmopolitan, Trudeau became Liberal Prime Minister in 1968 — and like Wilfrid Laurier before him, just the kind of French-Canadian that Anglo-Canadians love.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, who became leader of the Liberal Party after Laurier’s death, made Canada progressively more independent of Britain.