Example sentences for: laurier

How can you use “laurier” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Laurier’s conciliatory efforts did not diminish Anglo-French Canadian differences.

  • 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.)

  • William Lyon Mackenzie King, who became leader of the Liberal Party after Laurier’s death, made Canada progressively more independent of Britain.


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