Today in Canada’s Political History: Pierre Trudeau goes to summer camp
On this date in 1938 a young Pierre Trudeau was dropped off at Canoe Lake in Ontario’s Algonquin Park for the summer. He had not yet turned 18 and his season spent in the woods marked his first exposure to English Canadians of his own age. “Sensing the foreign environment,” Trudeau’s biographer John English later wrote, “he promised his diary that he would seize every occasion to declare that he was a ‘French Canadian and a Catholic.
The camp the future Prime Minister attended, Camp Ahmek, is still in operation today. Justin Trudeau, when he was a youth, attended there as his father had before him.is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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