Editing Louis St. Laurent (section)

==Legacy and memorials==

St. Laurent presided over the beginning of a new period in Canadian history, [[History of Canada (1945–1960)|post-WW2 Canada]]. Many have referred to this period as "Canada's Golden Age".<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis St-Laurent and Canada's Golden Age |url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/topic/louis-st-laurent-and-canadas-golden-age |website=CBC |access-date=14 October 2021}}</ref> St. Laurent's government was modestly progressive, fiscally responsible, and run with business-like efficiency. St. Laurent's former senior servant, [[Robert Gordon Robertson]], wrote, "St Laurent's administrations from 1949 to 1956 probably gave Canada the most consistently good, financially responsible, trouble-free government the country has had in its entire history."<ref>{{cite book|author=Gordon Robertson|title=Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau|url=https://archive.org/details/memoirsofveryciv0000robe|url-access=registration|year=2000|publisher=U of Toronto Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofveryciv0000robe/page/100 100]|isbn=9780802044457}}</ref> One of St. Laurent's cabinet ministers, [[Jack Pickersgill]], noted of him, "St. Laurent had made governing Canada look so easy that the people thought anyone could do it—and thus they elected John Diefenbaker."<ref>{{cite book |title=Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders |date=1999 |page=126}}</ref>

Canadian author and professor, [[Robert Bothwell]], wrote, "St. Laurent had many of the best characteristics of a prime minister but few of the best attributes of a politician. In his most productive years in the job, 1948 to 1954, he presided over a cabinet of strong ministers, many of them first-class politicians. His views and theirs generally coincided, though when they did not, it was the prime minister who prevailed. His fundamental commitment was to national unity, which he interpreted broadly in terms of an expansive federal power. At home and abroad he was an activist, which an abundant economy allowed him to be."<ref name="LouisBio" />

[[File:CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent, Heavy Icebreaker.jpg|thumb|right|[[CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent]], heavy icebreaker]]
St. Laurent was ranked #4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers (through [[Jean Chrétien]]) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by [[J. L. Granatstein]] and [[Norman Hillmer]] in their book ''Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders''.

The house and grounds in Compton where St. Laurent was born were designated a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site of Canada]] in 1973.<ref>{{CRHP|7637|Louis S. St. Laurent National Historic Site of Canada|7 April 2012}}</ref> St. Laurent's residence at 201 Grande-Allée Est in Quebec City is protected as a Recognized Federal Heritage Building.<ref>{{CRHP|10245|Louis S. St-Laurent House|7 April 2012}}</ref>

[[CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent]], a [[Canadian Coast Guard]] [[Icebreaker|Heavy Arctic Icebreaker]], is named after him.

[[Louis St. Laurent School]] in [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]]. is named in his honour,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecsd.net/schools/8409/Pages/default.aspx|title=Edmonton Catholic Schools|website=www.ecsd.net|access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref> as well as the Louis St-Laurent high school in [[East Angus, Quebec|East Angus]], Quebec.

The riding, [[Louis-Saint-Laurent (electoral district)|Louis-Saint-Laurent]], is named in his honour. Created in 2003, it partially consists of St. Laurent's old riding of Quebec East.