1st prime minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891
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He stitched a nation from fractious colonies and held it together through scandal, rebellion, and nearly two decades in power — but the same hand that built the railway and the state also set policies that haunt Canada's reckoning with its Indigenous past.
Born in Scotland, Macdonald immigrated to Kingston as a boy and rose through law to the legislature of the Province of Canada by 1844. When the colony's government collapsed into gridlock in 1864, he joined rival George Brown in a Great Coalition that engineered Confederation, and on 1 July 1867 became prime minister of the new Dominion. His first term saw him expand the country westward — annexing the North-Western Territory, Rupert's Land, British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island, and establishing the North-West Mounted Police — before a railway bribery scandal forced his resignation in 18…
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As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die.
the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics ..
He hoped that Britain and Canada would have "a healthy and cordial alliance.
Let us be English or let us be French, but above all let us be Canadians
Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.
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