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The Diary of André Laurendeau

Written during the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1964-67

by (author) André Laurendau

selected by Patricia Smart

translated by Dorothy Howard

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1991
Category
General, Constitutions
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550283334
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $16.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550283358
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $45.00

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André Laurendeau was one of Quebec's leading postwar journalists and nationalists, whose insistence on the seriousness of separatism led Lester Pearson to set up the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, with Laurendeau as co-chair.
Laurendeau's diary covers the period of the commission, and recounts his encounters with English Canadians and Quebecois in the 1960s. Public figures of the era like René Levesque, Lester Pearson, Gerald Pelletier, Pierre Trudeau and George Grant appear, and Laurendeau has an eye for the telling incident.
The Diary of André Laurendeau offers rare insights into relations between French- and English-speaking Canada in the 1960s that remain relevant to Canada's perennial constitutional debates.

About the authors

André Laurendau's profile page

PATRICIA SMART is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Forum, and the winner of the 1988 Governor General\s Award for non-fiction in French.'

Patricia Smart's profile page

DOROTHY HOWARD is a translator and poet. She recently translated Joy Kogawa\s Obasan into French.'

Dorothy Howard's profile page