The government is reconsidering future funding. Sir John A Macdonald has long been celebrated in Canada as a nation builder - the father of Confederation who played a leading role in the effort to ...
monuments and tributes to Canada’s founding father still dot the country. We scouted them out for you. Canada is suffering from a rampant myopic urge to erase the entirety of its history.
After her father died, Melanie Chisamore took on the task of preserving the story of her great-great-great-great-grandmother, ...
Should statues of historical figures be removed or replaced? That debate has been rekindled in Canada after Victoria took down a statue of John A. Macdonald, the country’s first prime minister.
Editor’s Note: The daughter of Sir Leslie ... and John Morley. No formal schooling was imposed upon the young Virginia; she was allowed the unrestricted freedom of her father’s magnificent ...
McMaster University recently felt it necessary to apologize for its “grave oversight” of including “Sir John A. Macdonald Day” in its university calendar of events. Why? Because ...
Montreal's downtown statue of Sir John A Macdonald was also decapitated in 1992 Activists in Montreal have pulled down a statue of Canada's first prime minister Sir John A Macdonald, who was ...
Extra fees for parking and internet access Named for Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, "The Mac" sits pretty on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River near downtown Edmonton ...
The prime minister’s father too had been named John Kotelawela and ... were the first and second prime ministers of the country while John Kotelawala’s son Lionel (our Sir John) became the third.
"The History of the King's Works" vol. V, edited by H.M. Colvin, 1976 Sir John Denham, father of the poet, has a remarkable monument in St John's church, Egham in Surrey and there is also a monument ...
The “incredible courage” of Scott Robertson and Leon MacDonald should be praised after they went their separate ways following a clash. That was the opinion of Sir John Kirwan, who also ...
In 1860, John A. Macdonald was Upper Canada's most prominent politician, a flawed and witty man with great organizational skills, an enviable stamina and a public taste for alcohol. Within the ...