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    Sir Louis-Hippolyte Ménard dit La Fontaine, 1st Baronet, KCMG (October 4, 1807 – February 26, 1864) was a Canadian politician who served as the first...
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    The Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel (French: Pont-Tunnel Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine) is a highway bridge–tunnel running over and beneath the...
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  • interchange with A-20 and Route 132 in Longueuil and quickly enters the Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel into the east end of Montreal. It is the main north-south...
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    Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry...
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  • (Washington, D.C.) Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807–1864), Canadian politician Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (1782–1867), French architect Louis Hippolyte Leroy (1763–1829)...
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    Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel Runs rush hours and midday on weekdays Created to compensate for construction on Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel...
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    (2010). Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine & Robert Baldwin. Toronto: Penguin Books. pp. 130–3. Saul, John Ralston (2010). Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine & Robert...
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    Plateau-Mont-Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Named in honour of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, The park's features include two linked ponds with a fountain...
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    statesman Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. The title became extinct on the early death of his son, the second Baronet, in 1867. Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1st...
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    opposition party, the moderate reformists led by Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. The new governor, Lord Elgin, who arrived in the colony on January...
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    school was built in 1851 at the intersection of Notre-Dame and Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine streets. The municipality of the parish Sainte-Famille de Boucherville...
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  • pacifist Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807–1864), Canadian politician Lyse Lafontaine (born 1942), Canadian film producer Marie-Jo Lafontaine (born 1950)...
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    of which he serves as general editor, is a double biography of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin. In it, he argues that Canada did not begin...
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  • re-elected in 1800. He died in Boucherville in 1825. His grandson, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, was an important figure in the development of responsible government...
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  • Julie-Élizabeth-Geneviève "Jane" Morrison was the second wife of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792...
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  • introduction of responsible government in 1848, Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine became the first truly democratic leaders of what would eventually...
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  • leading politicians such as Robert Baldwin plus the followers of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. After the signing of the Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty...
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    in the election to form an administration led by Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. In July 1848 Brown and his father closed the Banner to focus...
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    then co-prime ministers of the united Province of Canada, Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin, helped develop the Canadian democratic tradition...
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  • disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's lack of democratic enthusiasm. The Clear Grits advocated universal...
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    after the First Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. * Result compared to Action démocratique http://www.electionsquebec...
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    structures such as the Quebec Bridge, the Laviolette Bridge and the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel. In the waters of the Saint Lawrence there are eight...
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    to Sydenham's successor, Sir Charles Bagot, that Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine be invited to form the next government. Harrison served as provincial...
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    from Canada West and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Canada East. The first Prime Minister of United Canada is Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. 1849 - On April 25...
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    Montreal by the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel which carries Quebec Autoroute 25 and the Trans-Canada Highway. In 1672, Louis XIV of France ceded...
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    of the former Reform movement, following in the tradition of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Francis Hincks. The first leader of the Blue Party, George-Étienne...
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  • of violence from McCulloch's supporters. The reform candidate, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine, withdrew from the election to protect the lives of his supporters...
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  • Draper as co-leaders rather than co-premiers. All members of the governing Lafontaine-Baldwin coalition, except Daly, resigned in a protest over unapproved...
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    and the leaders of the legislative assembly, Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. Despite suffering from worsening cancer, he fought to preserve...
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    to the partnership of two 19th century political visionaries, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, the first democratically elected Joint Premiers...
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