The Diary of André Laurendeau
Written during the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1964-67
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- General, Constitutions
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550283334
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $16.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550283358
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
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.'
DOROTHY HOWARD is a translator and poet. She recently translated Joy Kogawa\s Obasan into French.'
