The Globe and Mail18d
William Lyon Mackenzie King’s prime ministership represented a turning point in Canadian history. So why has he been forgotten?
On Dec. 17, 1949, former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King celebrated his 75th birthday. “Flowers have come in quantities,” the man who led Canada for 21 years between 1921 and 1948 ...
Winnipeg Free Press13d
King left a mixed legacy for Canada to parse
Dec. 17 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Lyon Mackenzie King in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ont. in 1874. Though he was Canada’s longest-serving prime minister for close to 22 ...