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Henri Bourassa in July 1917, Portrait on a Card Announcing His Death in 1952
Henri Bourassa, founder of the newspaper Le Devoir, was an ardent defender of a nationalism that was Canadian rather than imperial. He was a fierce opponent of the government's policies on conscription.
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