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Quick Facts• 1815-1891• Emigrated to Canada in 1820 • Personal Life• Married 1843, Isabella Clark (1811 - 1856) • Two sons (one died in infancy) • Re-married 1867, Susan Agnes Bernard

(1836 - 1920) • One daughter • Died• June 6, 1891, Ottawa, Ontario, while still in office • Grave site: Cataraqui Cemetery, near Kingston,

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Political Record• Joint Premier, Province of Canada, with Étienne-Paschal Taché

1856 - 1857, and with George-Étienne Cartier 1857 - 1858, 1858 - 1862

• Co-leader, Great Coalition, with George-Étienne Cartier and George Brown 1864 - 1865

• Father of Confederation 1867 • Creation of provinces of Manitoba 1870, British Columbia 1871,

and Prince Edward Island 1873 • Red River Rebellion 1870 • Building of Canadian Pacific Railway 1871 - 1885 • North West Mounted Police 1873 • Pacific Scandal 1873 • Leader of the Opposition 1873 - 1878 • National Policy 1879 • Northwest Rebellion 1885 • Creation of the first national park at Banff, Alberta 1885

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• Canadian Pacific Railway• Macdonald.  Speech before the House of

Commons, January 17, 1881.

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Quebec

• Quebec is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level. Quebec is Canada’s largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger.

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New Brunswick• New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick;

pronounced: [nuvobʁɔnzwik]) is one of Canada’s three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally bilingual provincie (English and French) in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton, while Saint John is the most populous city. Statistics Canada estimates the provincial population in 2009 to be 750,457; a majority are English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone (33%), chiefly of Acadian origin.

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Ontario

• Ontario /ɒnˈtɛəri.oʊ/ is a Province of Canada located in the east-central part of Canada,[4][5] the largest by population[6] and second largest, after Quebec, in total area,[1] (Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are larger in area, but they are not provinces.) The province's largest metropolitan area and Canada's most populous city, Toronto, is the capital city of Ontario.[7] The national capital of Canada, Ottawa, is located in Ontario as well.

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LEIF ERIKSSON (975-1020)

• Leif Eriksson is the first in our list of Explorers of the Millennium. In fact, he was born in Iceland around 975, 25 years before the beginning of the millennium. He was a leader of Viking expeditions and may have been the first European to reach North America. He was the son of Eric the Red, who started the first European settlement of Greenland in 985. Leif went with his father to Greenland and lived there until 1000.

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