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John Alexander Macdonald was born [a] in Ramshorn parish in Glasgow, Scotland, on 10 January (official record) or 11 (father's journal) 1815. [b] [1] His father Hugh, an unsuccessful merchant, had married John's mother, Helen Shaw, on 21 October 1811. [2] John Alexander Macdonald was the third of five children.
Agnes, Lady Macdonald. On the first prime ministerial trip to British Columbia on the newly opened Canadian Pacific Railway, Macdonald built Agnes a platform on the cowcatcher of the locomotive and had a chair nailed to it so she could better see the mountain scenery. During her life in Canada with her husband, she became intimately acquainted ...
In 1891, Macdonald fell ill, and he died in his room at Earnscliffe. His widow, Lady Macdonald, briefly continued to reside in the home after his death, and Queen Victoria made her Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe. Soon, however, Lady Macdonald and her daughter departed for England and leased the house to Lord Treowen, commander of the militia.
The First Canadian Ministry was the first cabinet chaired by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald.It governed Canada from 1 July 1867 to 5 November 1873, including all of the 1st Canadian Parliament as well as the first eight months of the Second.
In 1876, Hugh John Macdonald married Jean Murray King, a Roman Catholic. Their daughter, Isabella Mary "Daisy" Macdonald, was born in 1877. Jean King Macdonald later died in 1881 as a result of fragile health due to Daisy's birth. [citation needed] In 1883, he married Gertrude Agnes VanKoughnet.
Created in 1891 for Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, the widow of Sir John A. Macdonald, the 1st prime minister of Canada after Confederation in 1867. Her peerage was heritable by her heirs male, but she herself was only survived by a daughter, and so the title became extinct on her death in England in 1920. [15]
Mackenzie was revealed to be the daughter of country singer and Celebrity Apprentice star Trace Adkins and Hud the son of Grammy-winning singer John Mellencamp (and brother of Real Housewives of ...
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson: November 10, 1845: Halifax Nova Scotia: December 5, 1892 – December 12, 1894: 47 years, 25 days: 49 years, 32 days: 0 days [note 1] December 12, 1894: 49 years, 32 days Sir Robert Borden [note 2] June 26, 1854: Grand-Pré Nova Scotia: October 10, 1911 – July 10, 1920: 57 years, 106 days: 66 years, 14 days ...