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Introduction
Alone at the Top
The Path to Power
Leading Canada
Private Life
Afterwards
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A Handful of Warriors

Ensign Mackenzie Bowell, Rifle Company, 1864
Ensign Mackenzie Bowell, Rifle
Company, 1864.
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Canada General Service Medal, Fenian Raid, 1870. Awarded to Lieutenant Wilfrid Laurier
Canada General Service Medal,
Fenian Raid, 1870, awarded to
Lieutenant Wilfrid Laurier.
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Several prime ministers had military experience. John A. Macdonald "shouldered a musket" during the Rebellion of 1837. Later, Alexander Mackenzie, John Abbott, Mackenzie Bowell, and Wilfrid Laurier joined the militia at the time of the Fenian raids. In this century, both Lester Pearson and John Diefenbaker were veterans of the First World War.
John Einarsson, Michael A. McMillan and John Diefenbaker in England, November 1916.
John Einarsson, Michael A.
McMillan and John Diefenbaker
in England, November 1916.
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