Life and times of the Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald . . . (1883) by Joseph Edmund Collins
. Macdonald* appointed Bowell minister of customs, a portfolio he would retain until after the prime minister’s death. His principal task was the supervision of the main source of government revenue. As a
1866. On 11 Aug. 1868 he sent a report to Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* on suspected Fenian activities in the
. Macdonald*, but he soon began advocating a non-partisan approach towards the redress of provincial grievances over the Canadian Pacific Railway’s monopoly, federal land administration, and the tariff
. Macdonald*’s Conservative governments.
Cartwright earned a reputation for probity as a banker but his financial career suffered a severe setback in
and calisthenics, and he also arranged fancy dances for special occasions, such as the Toronto “kirmess” of 1891. Although his students included the children of Lieutenant Governor Donald Alexander
mps, who urged Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* not to carry out the sentence. Like several other
. Macdonald* as a Conservative party organ in March 1872. In December 1873 he was appointed an immigration agent in Ireland by the Liberal government of Alexander
travelled to the Rockies and British Columbia again, to establish a usable pass through the Selkirks. The following year Fleming and Donald Alexander
future.
In 1869 Hill had met HBC officer Donald Alexander
, Donald Alexander Smith undertook to purchase control of Globe Printing, apparently to silence the daily’s
graduation, Laird returned to Charlottetown in 1859 to found, edit, and publish the Protestant and Evangelical Witness. Renamed the Patriot in 1865, with Donald
. Macdonald* and the Conservatives, who came to power in 1878, he believed that the British North America Act was superior to the American constitution because it provided for a stronger federal authority
federal election in the summer of 1872 did not, however, measure up to the hopes of the youthful members. Sir John A. Macdonald
MACDONALD, Sir DONALD ALEXANDER, militia and army officer; b
MACDONALD, Sir WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER (until 1898 he spelled his family name
and bishop; b. 15 July 1840 in Allisary, P.E.I., son of John Macdonald and Ellen Macdonald; d. 1 Dec. 1912 in Charlottetown
Charlottetown and Royalty. He would be reelected at every election until he resigned from politics in 1893. McLeod held his portfolio only until March 1880, when he was replaced by Donald
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