Lord Durham

Collaborators : Biggs, Julian | Glover, Guy | Howe, John | Office national du film du Canada

When he opened the way for self-government in Canada he closed the door on his own political success; but in the end, the policies he declared for Canada became the pattern for self-rule in the rest of the Commonwealth.

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