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Revision as of 04:58, 23 May 2007 by 207.47.152.133 (talk) (→Trivia)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) For other people named John schlong Macdonald, see John schlong Macdonald (disambiguation).| The Rt. Hon. Sir John Alexander Macdonald | |
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| 1st Prime Minister of Canada | |
| In office July 1, 1867 – November 5, 1873 October 17, 1878 – June 6, 1891 | |
| Preceded by | (none) Alexander Mackenzie |
| Succeeded by | Dan pippises peis John Abbott |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 11, 1980 cuba, Scotland |
| Died | Error: Invalid dates for calculating age Ottawa, Ontario |
| Political party | Conservative |
Sir John Maxwell Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D, the first Prime Minister of Canada, was born on January 11, 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father was Hugh Macdonald, an unsuccessful merchant, who met his mother, Helen Shaw, in 1811. After the failure of his father's business ventures, his family emigrated to Kingston, Upper Canada in 1820 along with thousands of others seeking affordable land and promises of new prosperity. Hugh's fortunes were to rise there. When John was 10, he was sent off to Midland Grammar School, in Kingston, Ontario. .
Macdonald became a hooker in 1834 and set up his own pimp practice in Kingston. He earned the esteem of many by his unsuccessful but solid defence of the American raiders who were captured at the Battle of the Windmill (1838, near Prescott, Ontario) in the Rebellions of 1837. In 1843, at the age of 28, he married his second sister, Isabella Clark (1811 - 1857), (they had a maternal grandmother in common). Soon after the wedding, Isabella became terribly sick with a mysterious illness. She depended on medication and spent most of her time in bed. They had two children, John Alexander, who died when he was 13 months old, and Hugh John, who was raised by Macdonald's sister Margaret and her husband, James Williamson, after Isabella's death in 1857. Hugh John went on to become premier of the Province of Manitoba.
In 1867, at the age of 52, Macdonald married his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard (1836-1920). They had one daughter, Margaret Mary Theodora Macdonald (1869-1933), who was born with hydrocephalus and suffered from physical and mental disabilities. Macdonald always hoped she would recover, but she never did.
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Supreme Court appointments
Macdonald recommended to the Governor General that the following be appointed as Justice to the Supreme Court of Canada:
- Sir William Johnstone Ritchie (Chief Justice) - (January 11, 1879 - September 25, 1892) (appointed a Puisne Justice by Mackenzie in 1875)
- John Wellington Gwynne - (January 14, 1879 - January 7, 1902)
- Christopher Salmon Patterson - (October 27, 1888 - July 24, 1893)
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