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Henri Bourassa was born in Montreal on September 1, 1868.
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Henri Bourassa was born in Montreal on September 1, 1868.
He was educated at schools in that city and at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.
As a young man of 22, he was elected mayor of Montebello, a small town to which he had gone to recover his health. Six years later he won election to Parliament as a Liberal and as a follower of Wilfrid Laurier, the first French-Canadian prime minister. But before his first term in the House of Commons had run its course, Bourassa had broken with his chief.
The issue was Canadian participation in the South African War, to which Laurier had been forced reluctantly to concede by the demands of English Canadians. To Bourassa and to many other French Canadians, the Boers were a people very similar to the Canadiens: oppressed by the English, the Boers were a conquered people. Although Laurier maintained that sending troops to South Africa was not a precedent binding Canada to participate in every English war, to Bourassa a precedent was a precedent, and the disgruntled member of Parliament resigned his seat. Shortly thereafter his supporters returned him to Parliament in a by-election and in two general elections, in 1900 and 1904.
Nominally a Liberal, Bourassa had become wary of Laurier and wary of the English Canadians, whom he saw dominating the Prime Minister. By 1907 he had had enough and left Parliament to run for the Quebec legislature, which he, as a Québecois, felt should be his area of action. Soon Bourassa was the leader of a great nationalist movement in the province, an articulate spokesman for French-Canadian ideas and ideals, a defender of the Canadien way of life. By 1910 the nationalists could take on Laurier with some confidence, and in a crucial by-election in that year they defeated a Liberal candidate in the constituency that had once been Laurier's own. The next year, by linking with the Conservatives, Bourassa helped drive the Liberals from power nationally.
The victory turned sour, however, when the new government proved less responsive than the old, and Bourassa was soon thundering at the Tories from his organ Le Devoir. The events of World War I drove Laurier and Bourassa together once more, and in 1917 their efforts to oppose conscription foundered.
After the war Bourassa was something of a spent force, increasingly out of touch with thinking in his province. In 1925, 1926, and 1930 he was a successful Independent candidate for Parliament, and during World War II he was a frequent performer on nationalist platforms. When he died in Outremont on August 31, 1952, at the age of 83, he was the grand old man of Canadien nationalism, but it had been 35 years since he had been a power in the land.
Joseph-Henri-Napoleon Bourassa was one of the leading political figures of Quebec, a splendid orator, and the founder and editor in chief of "Le Devoir, " a leading Montreal newspaper.
Henri Bourassa Blvd. , Henri-Bourassa metro station, and the federal riding of Bourassa, all in Montreal, are named for him.
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In 1899, Bourassa was outspoken against the British government's request for Canada to send a militia to fight for Britain in the Second Boer War. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier's compromise was to send a volunteer force, but the seeds were sown for future conscription protests during the World Wars of the next half-century. Bourassa challenged, unsuccessfully, the proposal to build warships to help protect the empire. He led the opposition to mandatory conscription during World War I, arguing that Canada's interests were not at stake. He opposed Catholic bishops who defended military support of Britain and its allies. Bourassa was an ideological father of French-Canadian nationalism.
Quotations:
"There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism. "
"If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so. "
"Let us be French as the Americans are English. "
"So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels. "
"Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. "
