How did john a macdonald die
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MACDONALD, JOHN, merchant, churchman, philanthropist, and politician; b. 27 Dec. 1824 in Perth, Scotland, son of Elizabeth Nielson and John Macdonald; m. in 1850 Eliza Hamilton (d. 1856); m. secondly in 1857 Annie Elizabeth Alcorn; d. 4 Feb. 1890 at Toronto, Ont.
Raised on floggings and Presbyterian prayer-meetings to be an intensely serious lad, John Macdonald came to Canada in 1837 when the regiment in which his father was an officer was sent out in response to the colonial disturbances. He briefly attended Dalhousie College in Halifax, then Bay Street Academy in Toronto, before entering the firm of C. and J. McDonald of Gananoque as a clerk in 1840. In 1842 he joined the Toronto dry goods house of Walter Macfarlane whereupon he fell into worldly habits until his conversion to Methodism in 1843 through the influence of a fellow clerk. He became a local preacher, but instead of entering the ministry as planned he left his job in 1847 and went to Jamaica for reasons of health. After a year, during which he was appalled by the licentiousness
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The MLI Confederation Project:
Born 10 or 11 January 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland; died 6 June 1891 in Ottawa, Ontario.
A practicing lawyer, John A. Macdonald first entered politics at the local level as alderman on the Kingston Town Council. He entered provincial politics representing Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1844. He played a noteworthy role forming the 1854 Liberal-Conservative political alliance, a precursor to the modern Conservatives, setting a pattern of useful compromise and coalition-building that would characterize his career.
Macdonald was joint premier of the Province of Canada, alongside first Étienne-Pascal Taché and later George-Étienne Cartier (1857-62), often confining his chief Upper Canada rival George Brown to opposition. Strategically, Macdonald was fighting a rearguard battle in Upper Canada, kept in government for long periods by his alliance with Cartier, but with his support increasingly undercut by the insurgent Reformer George Brown, with his demands for representation by population.
A politician known for his
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John A. Macdonald
Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1873; 1878–1891)
This article is about the Canadian prime minister. For people with similar names, see John Macdonald (disambiguation) and John Alexander Macdonald (disambiguation).
The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald GCB PC QC | |
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Macdonald, c. 1875 | |
| In office 17 October 1878 – 6 June 1891 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Governors General | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Mackenzie |
| Succeeded by | John Abbott |
| In office 1 July 1867 – 5 November 1873 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Governors General | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Mackenzie |
| In office 1 July 1867 – 6 June 1891 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | John Abbott |
| In office 1867 – 6 June 1891 | |
| In office 30 May 1864 – 30 June 1867 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | John Sandfield Macdonald |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| In office 6 August 1858 – 24 May 1862 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | George Brown |
| Succeed
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