Careers outside politics for Canadian PMs

Shamelessly pirated from theReturner. ;)

Sir John A. Macdonald: Famous barrister.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier: Wilfrid Cardinal Laurier, Archbishop of Montreal
Sir Robert Borden: High school teacher.
Mackenzie King: Chair, Department of Public Administration, Harvard University*
Louis St-Laurent: parish priest
John Diefenbaker: W.J. Bryan of Canada, Presbyterian minister.
Lester Pearson: Chair, Department of International Relations, University of Toronto
Pierre Trudeau: Professor of Civil Law, Universite de Montreal**
John Turner: Bay Street businessman
Brian Mulroney: Bay Street businessman
Jean Chretien: professional golfer, ATL Mike Weir
Paul Martin: shipping magnate
Stephen Harper: Professor of Economics, University of Toronto

*IOTL Mackenzie King worked for the Rockefellers as a labor arbitrator and received a PhD from Harvard University, along with a part-time lecturing position.

** He taught there during the Duplessis era, but the title was largely honorific due to Duplessis.
 
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