by Oscar D. Skelton
About this book
Chronicles of Canada Volume 30 - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Oscar D. Skelton offers a vivid, contemporary portrait of Canada’s political life at the turn of the 20th century. Skelton, writing in 1915, frames the story less as a private biography than as a history of the era that shaped Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s long public career.
This historical political narrative traces Laurier’s rise from his early years in parliament to his leadership as Canada’s first French-speaking prime minister (1896–1911) and his role in reconciling English and French Canada. Rather than dwelling on personal anecdotes, Skelton surveys the significant events, policies, and national tendencies—party politics, nation-building debates, and the tensions of imperial and domestic priorities—that defined Canadian public life in Laurier’s day. Its contemporary vantage gives listeners insight into how Canadians of the 1910s understood their own recent past.
Ideal for students of Canadian history, political history listeners, and anyone intrigued by the formation of modern Canada, this audiobook delivers a readable, authoritative account that illuminates the era and the political forces that shaped a nation.
