Canadian federal election of 1911

The Canadian federal election of 1911 , is the 12th general election since the Canadian Confédération of 1867, is held the September 21st 1911 with an aim of electing the Député S of the 12th legislature to the House of Commons of Canada. It marks the fifteen years end of government under the Liberal party of Wilfrid Laurier. The election was a confrontation on the stakes of the Libre-échange with the the United States and of the creation of a Canadian navy. The Conservative party gains the election and forms a majority Gouvernement under Robert Borden.

The liberals of Bay-tree, after several years with the capacity, had encountered serious problems during their last mandate. The debate on the Canadian marine was most important of those. Bay-tree, usually last Master in art to reach balance between the French Canada and the English Canada, had failed on this question and ends up alienating the two groups. The nationalist Québécois Henri Bourassa had snap the door of the Liberal party, disgusted by the policies of the government which he considered being too pro Britanniques. Many English Canadians in Ontario and in the Seaboard provinces found on the contrary that Laurier gave up the traditional bonds of Canada with the United Kingdom.

The base of support of the liberals moves towards the Western Canadian. The West, in the search of markets for its agricultural produce, had preached a long time the Libre-échange with the the United States. The community of businesses of the Quebec and the Ontario, where the economy was rather based on the manufacturing sector and which profited from the Protectionnisme, there was strongly opposite. The liberals, ideologically and historically large partisans of free trade, decide to make question the central point of their electoral strategy and negotiate an agreement of free trade of the natural products with the United States.

However, the countryside is held badly for the liberals. The powerful manufacturing interests of Toronto and Montreal transfer their allegiance and their financing to the conservatives. The tories affirm that free trade would undermine Canadian sovereignty and would lead to the gradual annexation of Canada by the United States.

The election of 1911 is often compared with the federal election of 1988, whose principal stake is once more the question of free trade with the United States. Ironically, in 1988, the positions of the two parties are reversed: they is the liberals who oppose the project of free trade conservatives.

Results

Country

Notes:

* did not introduce candidates at the time of the preceding election.

¹ a conservative candidate elected without opposition in Ontario.

² a liberal candidate elected without opposition in Ontario; two liberal candidates elected without opposition to Quebec.

³ Two candidates present without success under the banner “ Nationalist-conservateur ” In both cases they are the only candidates opposed to the candiats liberal, it would thus seem that they are the candidates of the Conservative party.

By province

Source

References of the original source

Borden, Henry (ED.), Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs 1938. 2 flights.
Dafoe John W., C lifford Sifton in Relation to His Times . Toronto, 1931.
Dafoe John W., Bay-tree: study in Canadian Politics has. Toronto, 1922.
L. Ethan Elect, '' Reciprocity, 1911: With Study in Canadian-American Relations '' (1939)
Harpell James J., National Canadian Economy: the Cause off High Prices and Their Effect upon the Country . Toronto, 1911.
Hopkins J. Manor house (comp.), The Canadian Annual Review off Public Affairs . Toronto, 1901 - annual
H. Blair Neatby. '' Laurier and has Liberal Quebec: With Study in Political Management '' (1973)
Porritt Edward, Sixty Years off Protection in Canada, 1846-1907: Where Industry Leans one the Politicians . London, 1908.

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