Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-91)
had a forty-seven year career in Parliament that permanently shaped
the course of Canadian political life. Sir John A.; An Anecdotal
Life of John A. Macdonald gives us the man behind the legend.
Lively and revealing anecdotes about Sir John A.'s political and
parliamentary life are set against stories of his private joys and
sorrows-the death of his brother at the hands of a drunken servant;
his rebellious youth; the illness of his beautiful first wife, and
her addiction to opium; his courtship and second marriage; the
tragedy of his only daughter, born with hydrocephalus; his
womanizing; and his life-long battle with alcohol. Stories of
patronage, of political campaigns, of loyal supporters and bitter
opponents take readers through many of the major events of the
nineteenth-century Canada, from the building of the CPR to the Riel
Rebellions, to name only a few.
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