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It was controlled by a majority coalition between the Conservative Party and the Liberal-Conservative Party under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 1st Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party , led by Edward Blake from 1869 to 1871, followed by a vacancy in the Liberal leadership.
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.
On November 3, Macdonald rose in the Commons to defend the government, and according to one of his biographers, P. B. Waite, he gave "the speech of his life, and, in a sense, for his life". [19] He began his speech at 9 p.m., looking frail and ill, an appearance which quickly improved. As he spoke, he consumed numerous glasses of gin and water.
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.
The main issue of the 1891 campaign was Macdonald's National Policy, a policy of protective tariffs. The Liberals supported reciprocity (free trade) with the United States. Macdonald led a Conservative campaign emphasizing stability, and retained the Conservatives' majority in the House of Commons. It was a close election and he campaigned hard.
John A. Macdonald receives a telegram announcing that the first train from Montreal in Quebec is approaching the Pacific. November 16 – Riel is hanged in Regina. November 27 – Hangings at Battleford : Wandering Spirit , Round the Sky, Bad Arrow, Miserable Man, Iron Body, Little Bear, Crooked Leg and Man Without Blood are hanged for murders ...
The Charlottetown Conference (A Conference to discuss the Confederation of Canada) was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, for representatives from colonies of British North America to discuss Canadian Confederation.
The Opening of Canadian Parliament in 1879. February 4 – Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority. March 12 – Sir John A. Macdonald introduces protective tariffs on manufactured goods being imported into Canada, a transcontinental railway, and immigration to the west in his National Policy.