CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY: A.ttorney-Gereral, came one day to our sub- Though achieving many brilliant successes, 15. He was the second son of Mr. once he found disaster, when in 1873 the lacdonald, who lived originally in ieet and said, " Tour turn has come at last, Macdonald." He became Receiver-General, Legislature declared him guilty of cor- sh of Dornoch, Sutherlandshire, but rupt collusion with Sir Hugh Allan in a ly in life removed to Canada. When but after a brief period assumed the man- o-ement of Crown Lands, where, in a short transaction relating to the construction of igration movement began in 1820, a the Canadian Pacific llailway; but whether gh Macdonald and his family (John time he reduced much confusion to har- mony. But in 1849 the reformers under Mr. this most successful and able statesman ier being then in his fifth year) took was guilty of the charge laid at his door for British North America. Me. Baldwin and M. Lafontaine were triumph- ant- and during the riot and incendiarism of or not, the people forgave him, and in laid settled near Kingston, then the 1878, with loud acclamation, took him bank iportant town in Upper Canada ; and that year we see Mr. Macdonald's figure and hear some of his impassioned utter- again to power. Sir John has always ssiding here for upwards of four years, stood in high regard in the mother coun- lily moved to Quinte Bay, leaving ances. On the downfall of the Hincks-Morin Cabinet, he became Attorney-General- try, and in 1879 was sworn in a member Alexander, then in his tenth year, at of Her Majesty's Privy Council. In 1865, in Kingston. The lad was placed at West, under the leadership of Sir Allan MacNab, but this ministry becoming un- he received the honorary degree of D. 0. L. •yal Grammar School, under the tui- from Oxford University; he also received Dr. Wilson, a fellow of Oxford Uni- popular, both in and out of Parliament, it r was forced to resign, and Mr. George Brown the degree of LL. D. from Queen's Uni- , and subsequently under that of Mr, versity, Kingston; and is likewise a D.C.L. 3 Baxter. After he had entered his was called upon to form a Cabinet. He undertook the task, but the Governor- of the University of Trinity College, To- ith year, his father took him away ronto. Although he is now well advanced ichool and articled him in the office of General having refused him permission to dissolve the House and appeal to the coun- in years, he does not seem to have lost any e Mackenzie, where he applied himself of his old vigour; friends press more closely ntly to study of the law. When he try, he, after a few days, resigned, and the old ministry was recalled to power. After around him, and the circle of his admirers . to practise law, there were heard the seems to grow larger every day. Since 1878 autterings of the storm soon to break a short time, however, Sir Allan was rele- gated to the sick-room, and John A. Mac- he has been instrumental in accomplishing the country; and the year following, several important acts of legislation, notable iers of disaffected persons, in Lower donald appeared as leader of the Upper Canada section, that ambitious and perse- among those being the project, now nearly ia under Papineau, and in Upper Can- completed, of building the Canada Pacific inder William Lyon Mackenzie, rushed vering spirit, George E. Cartier, leading the Lower Canada division. Then came Railway. Sir John resides at Stadacona ly to arms. A body of hunters, as the Hall, Ottawa, and his social responsibilities Iers were called, under the command of the period of transition, during which poli- tical events seem to pass before the eye like are shared with admirable grace and success le named Von Shoultz, crossed from the by his talented and exceedingly popular wife, rican side over to Prescott, but Shoultz objects in the kaleidoscope. There was a wide gulf between Upper and Lower Canada, Lady Macdonald. The following are some of captured, and his followers .killed and the measures of legislation accomplished by ;rsed. Courts-martial were established though for a lengthy period John A. Mac- donald in his own personality spanned the the right hon. gentleman since his en try into mdon and Kingston, and at the latter public life : The secularization of the clergy Shoultz and his accomplices were tried chasm. The seeds of discontent had borne fruit, and public sentiment was in a feverish reserves; the extension of the municipal sys- their crimes. Young Macdonald was tem; reorganization of the militia; the re- isel for the unfortunate Pole, and by the state of unrest. Then came Sandfield Mac- donald upon the scene as premier, but his organization of the civil service; the ratifi- and force of his address attracted wide cation of the Washington treaty; confeder- 3e. In 1844, during the most intoler- administration crumbled away as if it had been reared on sand. The Tache-Macdonald tion of B. N. A.; the construction of the portion of Lord Metcalfe's rule, Mr' Intercolonial llailway ; the extension and idonald was elected for Kingston, de (John A.) administration followed, but its tenure of life hung by the slimmest thread, consolidation of the Dominion; the National ing Mr. Manahan. On first entering the Policy; and the measure for the construction slature, he sat unmoved at his desk and eventually it survived only by the mercy of those who were really its enemies. It was of the Canadian Pacific Railway. le the frays for which that period of par- 1 out of this dead-lock, or the " fatal balance Young , Saiime! Sqnf er, Trenton, was aentary history was remarkable went on, born at Brampton, on the 7th November, raking," says a gentleman who remembers of parties," that grew the impulse for a con- federation. A coalition was formed, of which 1852. His father was born in Northum- ing seen him there, "half careless and berland county, in 1808. and is descended f contemptuous. Sometimes in the thick George Brown, Oliver Mowat, and William MeDougall, on the part of the reformers, from U. E. Loyalists. He married a native the melee he was busy in and out of the were members. Thereafter the figure of of Connecticut, U. S. When our subject rary. I scarce ever remember seeing him John A. Macdonald stands boldly out. It was born his father was a Methodist minis- in about the House that he was not search- was he who led and shaped the movement, ter stationed at Brampton, and Samuel was ; up some case either then impending or and conducted negotiations in the maritime the youngest of seven boys. He was edu- come up at a later date. He was for a provinces and in England; andin recognition cated at the High School, where he matricu- 3at part of his time, too, buried in a study z constitutional history." His first speech °* his eal and service he was called to lead lated. He studied law at various times in is in reply to the Hon. Robert Baldwin, ^.rst administration under confederation, a lawyer's office, but owing to failing health and had a knighthood conferred upon him. he was obliged to abandon the profession, d though it was daring, it was based on a ills career since that date is fresh in the and took to his present business, that of .de foundation of common sense. During memories of most who watch public events. •wholesale grocer, entering into partnership .e last days of toryism, Mr. Draper, the J.