John A. Macdonald's successful leadership of the movement to confederate the provinces and his subsequent tenure as prime minister for most of the late 19th century rested on his ability to bring together the English-speaking Protestant oligarchy and the ultramontane Catholic hierarchy of Quebec and to keep them united in a conservative coalition.

In the 1870s John A. Macdonald's National Policy was implemented, creating a system of protective tariffs around the new nation.

Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.

* August 7-September 20 – The first Canadian elections sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected to government

British Columbia joined Canada July 20, 1871, by Act of Parliament ( and encouraged to join by Sir John A. Macdonald's promise of a railway within 10 years ).

He became a partner in John A. Macdonald's law office.

Sir John A. Macdonald's government was in its second term and facing allegations of scandal over the building of the railway ( the Pacific Scandal ), and the economy was once again sliding into recession.

To ensure the contract, he bribed Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, subscribing over $ 350, 000 for Macdonald's re-election campaign in 1872, but the Pacific scandal ( and Macdonald's defeat ) ended his dreams of supremacy in the railway business.

He was a supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy but was also a friend of Liberal leader Edward Blake whom he supported on issues such as proportional representation.

* August 7-September 20 – The 1867 Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected as government.

* July 20-October 12: In the 1872 federal election Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives are re-elected.

* November 5-Pacific Scandal: the Canadian House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence in Sir John A. Macdonald's government

* February 22-Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.

* March 11-The Bank of Canada issued a $ 500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a C $ 1, 000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait

* March 5-Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority

He played a major role in exposing the government of Sir John A. Macdonald's complicity in the Pacific Scandal forcing the government's resignation.

** In the federal election, Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals

** Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority.

In Victorian times, these points were the pre-eminent strains of conservative thought in the British Empire, and were advanced by many in the Tory faction of Sir John A. Macdonald's conservative coalition in the Canadas.

He was only the second child in Canadian history to be born when one of his parents was prime minister ; the first was John A. Macdonald's youngest daughter Margaret Mary Macdonald, and Trudeau's younger brothers Alexandre ( Sacha ) ( born December 25, 1973 ) and Michel ( 1975 – 98 ) were the third and fourth, respectively.

The National Policy was a Canadian economic program introduced by John A. Macdonald's Conservative Party in 1876 and put into action in 1879.

On 25 December 1777, the 76th was again re-raised, as the 76th Regiment of Foot ( Macdonald's Highlanders ), by Colonel John MacDonell of Lochgarry, in the West of Scotland and Western Isles, as a Scottish Light Infantry regiment.

On 25 December 1777 the 76th was again re-raised as the 76th Regiment of Foot ( Macdonald's Highlanders ) by Colonel John MacDonell of Lochgarry, in the West of Scotland and Western Isles, as a Scottish Light Infantry regiment.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

Friends of the young Alexios II now tried to form a party against the empress mother and the prōtosebastos ; Alexios II's half-sister Maria, wife of Caesar John ( Renier of Montferrat ), stirred up riots in the streets of the capital.

His mother and father had married four years previously, at which time Chaplin Sr. became the legal carer of Hannah's illegitimate son, Sydney John ( 1885 – 1965 ).

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

At the age of 10 he was taken by his mother to hear a talk given by John Thomas in Aberdeen, Scotland.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

His parents divorced when he was four years old ; shortly after, his mother married John Mark Byers who adopted the boy.

He lived with his mother, Sharon Melissa Byers, his stepfather, John Mark Byers, and his stepbrother, Shawn Ryan Clark, aged 13.

His mother, Nora ( née Sullivan ), was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic.

* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

* 1912 – Roberta McCain, American, mother of John McCain

Her mother died in childbirth in 394, giving birth to John, who died with their mother.

Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.

John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire.

Unlike many children, Simon was exposed to the idea that human behavior could be studied scientifically at a relatively young age due to the influence of his mother ’ s younger brother, Harold Merkel, who had studied economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison under John R. Commons.

Moseley's mother was Amabel Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, who was the daughter of the biologist and conchologist John Gwyn Jeffreys.

His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.