In the 1860s, John A. Macdonald was instrumental in creating the Dominion of Canada and became its first prime minister. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada) Macdonald was tall and loose ...

The Red River Resistance, led by a young Métis named Louis Riel, presented an early test to the leadership of Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald ... (Courtesy of the National Archives ...

Here again, a few months later, is Sir John A. Macdonald, reviled today as the architect of Canada’s residential school system, pleading in Parliament on behalf of Indigenous rights: ...

Sir John A. Macdonald and Brian Mulroney were ... Of the Fathers of Confederation, he was the first among equals. Macdonald’s National Policy of high tariffs and his belief in railways as ...

On an early-fall afternoon in 1890, Sir John A ... year canyon. Macdonald faced an economic and political threat that was, in many ways, remarkably similar to our current national predicament.

So his National Policy was a response to American policy ... s troublesome — by and large most historians have been very complimentary toward John A. Macdonald. It’s the activists and political ...