Correspondence Of Sir John Macdonald Selections From The Correspondence Of The Right Honorable Sir John Alexander Macdonald First Prime Minister Of PDF Download

Excerpt from Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald: Selection From the Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G. C. B.; First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada So many accounts of Sir John Macdonald have appeared during the past twenty-five years that it seems almost a work of supererogation to recite once again, even in the most general way, the familiar story of his life. Yet it may perhaps be convenient to the readers of these pages that they should have under their hand, for purposes of ready reference, a brief summary, in chronological form, showing the salient features of his public career. John Alexander Macdonald, second son of Hugh Macdonald and Helen Shaw, was born in Glasgow on the nth January, 1815. In 1820 his parents emigrated to Canada and settled at Kingston, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar of Upper Canada in February, 1836. In March, 1843, elected to the Kingston town council, and in October, 1844, to Parliament where, save for the period between 1878 and 1887, he continued to represent Kingston until his death, forty-seven years later. On the 11th May, 1847, Mr. Macdonald entered the cabinet of Mr. W. H. Draper as Receiver General, becoming Commissioner of Crown Lands later in the same year. Early in 1848 the ministry of which he was a member, having been defeated at the polls, resigned office. Mr. Macdonald remained in opposition until 1854 when, on accession to power of the coalition government formed by a junction of the followers of Robert Baldwin with the Conservative party in Upper Canada and the moderate section of the French Canadians, he became Attorney General for Upper Canada, which position, with the exception of eight days in August, 1858, and twenty-two months in 1862-1864, he continued to hold until Confederation in 1867, and thereafter, under the title of Minister of Justice, until November, 1873. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.