# Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin

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- Book: [Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-ralston-saul/extraordinary-canadians-louis-hippolyte-lafontaine-and-robert-baldwin) ([Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-ralston-saul/extraordinary-canadians-louis-hippolyte-lafontaine-and-robert-baldwin.md))
- Authors: [John Ralston Saul](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-ralston-saul)
- Publisher: penguin_canada
- ISBN: 978-01-4305-589-1
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2012-09-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Canada has no better interpreter than brilliant writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that modern Canada did not begin in 1867; rather its foundation was laid years earlier by two visionary...