The Day of Sir John Macdonald / A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
by Joseph Pope
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About This Book
Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1915. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. If it is multi volume set, then it is only ...
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- Sir John Macdonald crossing the Rockies over the newly constructed Canadian Pacific Railway, 1886. From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys
- THE DAY OF SIR JOHN MACDONALD
- A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
- SIR JOSEPH POPE
- K.C.M.G.
- TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1915
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I
- YOUTH
- The Macdonald homestead at Adolphustown. From a print in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library
- John A. Macdonald in 1842
- Sir Allan Napier MacNab. From a portrait in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library
- CHAPTER II
- MIDDLE LIFE
- Sir Edmund Walker Head. From the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library
- Sir Étienne Pascal Taché. From a portrait in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library
- Sir John A. Macdonald in 1872
- Sir John A. Macdonald in 1883
- CHAPTER III
- OLD AGE
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX
- THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
- THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED
- Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
- THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
- PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS
- PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE
- PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION
- PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA
- PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA
- PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST
- PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM
- PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY
- PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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