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.

Macdonald's column was beaten back from Lannoy, and the same fate befell the command of Dumas at Lincelles.

In Ottawa, the Governor General Lord Lisgar had, at Macdonald's behest, proclaimed an amnesty on December 6 for all in Red River who would lay down their arms.

Although the treaty was signed in the name of the British Empire, Macdonald's presence established that the newly-formed Dominion of Canada would at least take part in settling foreign matters that affected it directly, especially with respect to dealings with the United States.

Macdonald's primary concern was international disarmament, and Alexander persuaded the Admiralty to reduce their demands for new cruisers as a prelude to negotiations aimed at ending naval rivalry with the U. S. A ..

She did not support Ramsay Macdonald's National Government and stayed in the Labour Party, losing her seat a few months later at the 1931 general election in October.

After Loris Kessel had left John Macdonald's RAM team, he approached Frank Williams for a drive at his team.

Films supported by the fund included James Marsh's Oscar-winning Man on Wire ; Armando Iannucci's In the Loop ( Sundance 2009 ); Jane Campion's Bright Star ; Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank ; Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin ’ ( Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals 2009 ); Sally Potter's Rage ( Berlin Competition 2009 ); Noel Clarke ’ s Adulthood ( BAFTA Rising Star ); Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley ( Cannes, Palme d ' Or ); Shane Meadows's This is England ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Andrea Arnold's Red Road ( Cannes, Jury Prize ); Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton ( Edinburgh International Film Festival, Best New Director ); Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds ( also at Berlin and Sundance 2009 ); and Duane Hopkins's Better Things ( Cannes, Critics ’ Week ).

The Governor General at the time of Macdonald's death, Lord Stanley, wrote to London in 1891:

Macdonald's more than 15 years as premier brought fundamental changes.

Another common topic of Macdonald's jokes was O. J.

In a time when party discipline was not as strong as it is today, once Macdonald's culpability in the scandal became known he could no longer expect to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.

Nevertheless, the specifics of his conciliation policy were opposed by Macdonald and Howe alike ( Howe was by this time Macdonald's Indian Affairs minister ).

When Macdonald's Conservatives were returned to government in 1878, Aikins was again appointed Secretary of State for Canada as the ministry's sole " coalition Reformer " ( the group was by this time a minor political force in Canada ).

The first Canadian Red Ensigns were used in Sir John A. Macdonald's time.

The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.

Having succeeded to the earldom in 1891, Macdonald's prediction came true when Lord Minto was named Governor General of Canada in the summer of 1898.

When Macdonald's Tories returned to power in 1878, Tilley again became minister of finance and served until his retirement from politics in 1885 when he was appointed the seventh Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

The " Schools Question ", as it was known, had divided the Conservative government since 1890, and especially after Macdonald's death in 1891 when no strong leader replaced him.

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.

As such, when John A. Macdonald's Conservatives were returned to power in 1878, the local balance of power began to shift.

UFO expert Robert Sheaffer writes after reading Macdonald's recreation that the Hills are the " poster children " for not driving when sleep deprived.

Following these rejections, he began to align himself with the opposition Liberals, joining the party when the Pacific Scandal brought down Macdonald's government later in the year.

Stephen gave over $ 1 million to Sir John A. Macdonald's government from 1882 to 1890, knowing full well the important part it played in the successful completion of the CPR when their finances had been nothing short of precarious.

On the front, these include a holographic stripe along the left side, depicting the number 10 alternated with maple leaves ; a watermark of Macdonald's portrait ; and a broken-up number 10, which resolves itself when backlit ( the latter two which replaced the shiny-leaf feature ).

Creighton's vision of Canadian history was ultimately a deeply pessimistic and tragic one as he felt Canada had the potential to be the world ’ s greatest country if only Canadians would follow the vision of the Fathers of Confederation, especially Macdonald's.

The new Department of Justice had only seven staff: two barristers-at-law ( including the Deputy Minister, Hewitt Bernard ), a clerk and shorthand writer ( Macdonald's personal secretary ), a copy clerk, a clerk articling under Macdonald, and two messengers.

Russell Cunningham was the only CCF leader to serve as Leader of the Opposition after the 1945 provincial election in which Premier Angus L. Macdonald's Liberal Party swept 28 of the 30 seats and the Tories were wiped out.

It was to be Macdonald's only election defeat.

At just 45, he was expected to become the successor to Macdonald's legacy, but after only a year in office he died from a stroke.

Despite Macdonald's claims that he was innocent, evidence came to light showing receipts of money from Allan to Macdonald and some of his political colleagues.

Later, he cited such allegedly " unserious " references as the Sony Pictures website for Kevin Macdonald's documentary film One Day in September and an online high-school syllabus from Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Unit for High School Students, by Professor Ronald Stockton, in his criticism of the book.

Macdonald's oft-quoted description from Scotland's Gift: Golf is as follows:

Kaelin was " best friends " with actor / comedian Norm Macdonald from mid 2000 to mid 2001 according to Macdonald's The Norm Show co-star Artie Lange.

Dwight Macdonald's critique of middlebrow culture, " Masscult and Midcult ," associated the modern industrial drive away from specialization and folk as creating mass-market and therefore anonymous consumers of the arts.

General Macdonald's army returned from Naples to support Moreau.

While Rawlins is clearly in the tradition of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, he differs sharply from these earlier fictional detectives in that Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator ( he acquires a license late in the series ) with no background or training in law enforcement.

Their " National Policy " of high tariffs against the United States, and intense railway building, became the basis of a political dynasty that dominated Canadian politics from Confederation until Macdonald's death in office in 1891.

Campbell stood in by-election for the riding of Winnipeg, after Hugh John Macdonald's resignation from the house.

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.

One of the most frequent guest correspondents during Macdonald's run was Joe Blow ( played by Colin Quinn ), a blue-collar guy who would rant about things that bother him.