Quebec Before Duplessis: The Political Career of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau

by Bernard L. Vigod

Born into French Canada's traditional elite, a legal and landholding aristocracy, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau emerged as the leading champion of industrial development in early twentieth-century Quebec. As premier from 1920 to 1936, and previously as chief lieutenant in the Liberal government of Sir Lomer Gouin, Taschereau vigorously advocated the development of Quebec's immense hydraulic forest, and mineral resources as the key to a prosperous future...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773505881
• ISBN13: 9780773505889
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Vigod delivers compelling biography

If you didn't know about Taschereau, but wanted to understand Quebec politics in the first half of the last century, Vigod brings the dynamics of Quebec politics during this period to life. The great figures of the day and the relationships between them make for a compelling narrative.