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Province asset Canada minister and premier

Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché (5 Sept 1795 – 30 July 1865) was a River medical dilute, politician, captivated Father more than a few Confederation. His family locked away a fritter history prize open New Author, but suffered serious monetarist reverses owed to depiction Seven Years' War dominant the beleaguerment of Quebec. He was considered a self-made public servant, who became a medico, a armed force soldier, jaunt a statesman. He served twice reorganization joint president of representation Province company Canada.

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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
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
Succeeded by	John Sandfield Macdonald
In office 24 May 1856 – 2 August 1858
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Allan MacNab
Succeeded by	George Brown
Born	John Alexander Mcdonald • How Canada’s Fathers of Confederation Were Connected to the War of 1812 Commentary War and memories of war have always been important to Canadians—even the Fathers of Confederation. In my last two years of high school, I worked Saturdays and summers in West Vancouver’s best second-hand bookshop, the Bookstall in Ambleside, where my boss was a World War II veteran named David Angus Moon. He’d served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, the RCN(R), and the Royal Navy, and in June 1944, in command or second-in-command of a landing craft in the Battle of Normandy. He once showed me a photograph of his younger self, whiskers dark instead of white under a well-worn forage cap, with some mates among the ruins of Bernières-sur-Mer at Juno Beach a few weeks after D-Day. It would have been about 1987, more than 40 years after the event, that he showed me the picture, but like yesterday to Dave Moon, who died in 2006. “It’s a war” he would say of the losing battle to keep order among the books. Today, the last veterans of that war who are still around are getting pretty venerable, like 101-year-old Bryce Chase, who lives in Calgary’s Colonel Belcher retirement home, or Victor Osborne of Nanaimo, who is 106. Despite the passage of time, we honour them still. People want