JUSTIN AND SOPHIE: THE FAMILY ALBUM

HIS FATHER'S SON

Justin Trudeau was born in Ottawa on Christmas Day in 1971, three years after "Trudeaumania" vaulted his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, into a majority Liberal government. In 2000, when he delivered the eulogy at his father's funeral, Justin remembered one memorable trip to Canadian Forces Station Alert in the Arctic, where he was taken on a secret mission to see "Santa Claus" hard at work making toys in his workshop.

TRUDEAU THE TEACHER

Before entering politics, Justin Trudeau – who worked as a teacher and a board member of the Katimavik youth program founded by his father's government – had a long career working with youth, including the summers he spent as a counsellor at Camp Ahmek in Ontario's Algonquin Park. In 2013, after the Conservatives ran attack ads insinuating Mr. Trudeau's camp-counselling and school-teaching days made him too soft to lead the Liberals, Joanne Kates – director of Camp Arowhon in Algonquin Park, Ont. – offered this defence of why rounding up children made him even more qualified for leadership. (After his electoral victory in 2015, Ms. Kates followed up with an open letter to the prime-minister-designate with advice on putting his old camp-counselling skills to use.)

WHEN JUSTIN MET SOPHIE

As a young girl, Sophie Grégoire came to know the Trudeau family as a classmate of Justin Trudeau's younger brother, Michel, who died in an avalanche on a skiing trip in British Columbia in 1998. She got to know Justin better after the two met at a Montreal Grand Prix charity ball in 2003, and they were married two years later. They now have three children: Xavier, 8, Ella-Grace, 6, and 20-month-old Hadrien.

In 2013, during the Liberal leadership campaign, The Globe's John Allemang got to know Ms. Grégoire-Trudeau and observed how she brought "free-floating candour" instead of risk-averse caution to the role of political wife.

TRUDEAU IN THE RING

In 2008, Mr. Trudeau made a big move into federal politics by winning the Montreal riding of Papineau for the Liberals. With the Liberals in opposition, Mr. Trudeau took on portfolios ranging from youth issues to multiculturalism and citizenship. In 2012, he entered a different political arena – fighting Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau in a charity boxing match, which he won.

TRUDEAU ON THE RISE

In 2011, the Liberals suffered a severe blow in a federal election that left them in third-party status. Michael Ignatieff's resignation triggered a new leadership struggle, and Mr. Trudeau decided to put his name forward. He won the 2013 leadership race in a crushing victory – about 80 per cent of the votes – and pledged to rebuild the party.

TRUDEAU ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

The 2015 election – Canada's longest-ever, at 78 days – was a hard slog for the Trudeau team, in which he ran on an ambitious program of social programs and deficit spending and fought Conservative accusations that he was "just not ready." The Globe's Ian Brown took an in-depth look at Mr. Trudeau on the campaign trail (link available for subscribers only).

TRUDEAU VICTORIOUS

The Liberals' majority victory on Oct. 19 was the biggest increase for a party between elections in Canadian history – a stunning reversal for a party that had only 34 seats when Mr. Trudeau took over the leadership. Here's The Globe's roundup of complete coverage from the morning after.

A TRUDEAU BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books on Pierre Trudeau's political career and family are in ample supply: The classics include Trudeau père's 1993 Memoirs and Richard Gwyn's The Northern Magus (1980).

During the 2015 election, The Globe prepared an e-book about Mr. Trudeau (as well as his two main opponents, Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair): All are available to registered globeandmail.com users here.

Here are some other Trudeau-related books that The Globe has reviewed in recent years.

Autobiographies:

• Common Ground, by Justin Trudeau (2014). Reviewed by Jeet Heer.
• Changing My Mind, by Margaret Trudeau (2010). Reviewed by Andrew Cohen.

History:

• Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944, by Max and Monique Nemni (2006). Reviewed by Jean-Philippe Warren.
• Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965, by Max and Monique Nemni (2011). Reviewed by Joseph Dunlop.
• Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1968-2000, by John English (2009). Reviewed by William Johnson.
• The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight, and the Fight for Canada , by Ron Graham (2011). Reviewed by Andrew Cohen.