Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

Louis St-Laurent () was born on 1 February 1882 in Compton, Quebec, a village in the Eastern Townships to Jean-Baptiste-Moïse Saint-Laurent, a French-Canadian, and Mary Anne Broderick, an Irish-Canadian.

It was not until he was nearly 60 that St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941.

He persuaded St-Laurent that it was his duty to remain in government following the war in order to help with the construction of a post war international order and promoted him to the position of Secretary of State for External Affairs ( foreign minister ) in 1945, a portfolio King had previously always kept for himself.

In 1956, this idea was actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Suez Crisis.

St-Laurent won, and was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada on 15 November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after Wilfrid Laurier.

To that end, Jack Pickersgill ( a minister in St-Laurent's cabinet ) said as prime minister St-Laurent had: " as fine an intelligence as was ever applied to the problems of government in Canada.

Militarily, St-Laurent was a leading proponent of the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in 1949, serving as an architect and signatory of the treaty document.

St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee's proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white dominions into a multi-racial partnership.

It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing King George VI as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the international association once it became a republic.

It was this last project that was to sow the seeds that led to the downfall of the St-Laurent government.

St-Laurent was the first Prime Minister to live in the present official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada: 24 Sussex Drive, from 1951 to the end of his term in office.

St-Laurent was encouraged by others to reach out to the CCF and at least four of six independent / small party MPs to form a coalition majority government, which would have held 134 of the 265 seats in Parliament — 50. 1 % of the total.

St-Laurent was succeeded as Liberal Party leader by his former Secretary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, Lester B. Pearson, at the party's leadership convention in 1958.

Louis Stephen St-Laurent died from natural causes on 25 July 1973, in Quebec City, Quebec, aged 91, and was laid to rest at St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery in his hometown of Compton, Quebec.

He was elected for the first time to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1953 election, as a Liberal under the leadership of Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent.

The first Dollarama store was created at the shopping centre " Les promenades du St-Laurent " in Matane.

He was mayor of St-Laurent from 1905 to 1909, and Quebec Conservative Party leader from 1915 to 1916.

Jean-Paul Stephen St-Laurent ( born April 23, 1912, date of death unknown ) was a Canadian politician.

Phips, whose troops had been pillaging along the coast of the St-Laurent on their way to lay siege to Québec City, was repulsed by the ambush, and later was unsuccessful in his attack on Québec.

It is widely believed that the activities directed by St-Laurent and Pearson could well have avoided a nuclear war.

At the conferences, St-Laurent, compelled by his belief that the UN would be ineffective in times of war and armed conflict without some military means to impose its will, advocated the adoption of a UN military force.

St-Laurent chose the following jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the Governor General:

He is survived by granddaughter Louise Mignault and grandson Louis St-Laurent II.

By September 2007 the North Pole had been visited 66 times by different surface ships: 54 times by Soviet and Russian icebreakers, 4 times by Swedish Oden, 3 times by German RV Polarstern, 3 times by USCGC Healy and USCGC Polar Sea, and once by CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent and by Norwegian Vidar Viking.

On the road to Saint-Jean-du-Maroni ( about south of St-Laurent, home of the former penal Camp de la Rélégation ), one can find many small shops owned by Saramakas selling the woodwork for which they are famous-especially chairs and tables.

In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.

In that same year, St-Laurent negotiated the British North America ( No. 2 ) Act, 1949 with Britain which ' partially patriated ' the Canadian Constitution, most significantly giving the Canadian Parliament the authority to amend portions of the constitution.

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate on 19 May 1953 on the recommendation of Louis St-Laurent.

A Liberal, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate on 25 January 1949 on the recommendation of Louis St-Laurent.

He retired from provincial politics in 1950 and was appointed to the Canadian Senate on 24 January 1951 on the recommendation of Louis St-Laurent.

On 28 July 1955 he was appointed to the Canadian Senate on the recommendation of Louis St-Laurent, and represented the senatorial division of Halifax-Dartmouth until his death.

CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent, Heavy Icebreaker

A Liberal, she was appointed to the Senate 28 July 1955 on the recommendation of Louis St-Laurent, and represented the senatorial division of Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island until her death.

With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

St-Laurent chatted with children, gave speeches in his shirt sleeves, and had a ' common touch ' that turned out to be appealing to voters.

St-Laurent worked as a lawyer from 1905 to 1941, also becoming a professor of law at Université Laval in 1914.

St-Laurent practised corporate and constitutional law in Quebec and became one of the country's most respected counsels.

King came to regard St-Laurent as his most trusted minister and natural successor.

In the 1949 federal election that followed his ascension to the Liberal leadership many wondered, including Liberal party insiders, if St-Laurent would appeal to the post-war populace of Canada.

St-Laurent led the Liberals to another powerful majority in the 1953 federal election.

St-Laurent and his cabinet oversaw Canada's expanding international role in the postwar world.

In addition, St-Laurent modernized and established new social and industrial policies for the country during his time in the prime minister's office.