Twelve graduates of Dalhousie have also served as provincial premiers across Canada, including Allan Blakeney, John Buchanan, Alex Campbell, Amor De Cosmos, Darrell Dexter, Joe Ghiz, John Hamm, Angus Lewis Macdonald, Russell MacLellan, Gerald Regan, Robert Stanfield, Clyde Wells, and Danny Williams.

Macdonald was designated as the first Prime Minister of the new nation, and served in that capacity for most of the remainder of his life, losing office for five years in the 1870s over the Pacific Scandal ( corruption in the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway ).

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

In the Army of the North, Louis Philippe served with four future Marshals of France: Macdonald, Mortier ( who would later be killed in an assassination attempt on Louis Philippe ), Davout, and Oudinot.

The first mayor of the town was Henry Baldwin Macdonald, who served from 1926 to 1928.

He attended all three Confederation Conferences, and then served as Minister of Public Works in the Macdonald government.

From 1857 to 1862 he served alongside John A. Macdonald as co-premier of the united province.

He was nominated by Sir John A. Macdonald to be Canada's first Speaker of the House of Commons, a position in which he served from 1867 to 1874.

Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and the founder of the party that spawned the modern Conservative Party of Canada, and The Mail served as a Conservative Party organ.

Tilley entered federal politics with Confederation in 1867 and served in the federal Macdonald Cabinet as Minister of Customs.

Macdonald was replaced by Colin Quinn, who started on the first episode after Macdonald had been removed, and served through the 1999 – 2000 season.

As a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1858 to 1864, he was closely associated with George Brown and served as Provincial Secretary ( 1858 ) and Postmaster-General ( 1863 – 1864 ) in pre-Confederation government ( the John Sandfield Macdonald administration ) and was also an avid supporter of " representation by population ".

He served with General Macdonald in the Grisons in 1800-1801, and published an account of the campaign in 1802.

A strong supporter of the Progressive Conservatives and small " c " conservative, Creighton's heroes were Macdonald, Robert Borden, and John Diefenbaker, for whom Creighton served as a speech writer.

William Ross Macdonald, ( December 25, 1891 – May 28, 1976 ), served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1968 to 1974, and as Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 1949 to 1953.

From 1954 until the Liberal government's defeat in the 1957 election, Macdonald served as Solicitor General of Canada.

A Reformer and advocate of responsible government, Macdonald served in all eight Assemblies of the United Province of Canada prior to Confederation.

Macdonald's brothers, Donald Alexander Macdonald and Alexander Francis Macdonald, were also politicians, and served as federal Members of Parliament.

He served as cabinet minister under prime ministers John A. Macdonald and John Abbott, but declined to serve under John Thompson.

During the North-West rebellion in 1885, Macdonald served as a Lieutenant in the 90th ( Winnipeg ) Battalion of Rifles, a unit which he helped to organize.

Hicks was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1945 as a Liberal for Annapolis County and served as Nova Scotia's first Minister of Education from 1949 to 1954 in the government of Angus Lewis Macdonald.

Sir John A. Macdonald was second-in-line, with 19 years, as the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history ( 1867 – 1873, 1878 – 1891 ).

More recent TV roles include Molly Macdonald in Monarch of the Glen ( 2000 – 05 ), and an appearance in Casualty ( Series 26, No Goodbyes, 19 November 2011 ) as Caitlin Northwick ( alongside Michael Jayston ).

: under Macdonald ( October 19 1878 – May 19 1879 )

Robb carrying the Dunnville Naval Brigade, consisting of 19 men and 3 officers ( Captain Lachlan McCallum, Lieutenant Walter T. Robb, Second Lieutenant Angus Macdonald ) ( a total of 71 men and 8 officers ) and steamed east to the Niagara River, then scouted downriver as far as Black Creek.

As a result of these social reforms the Liberal-Labour MP Alexander Macdonald told his constituents in 1879, " The Conservative party have done more for the working classes in five years than the Liberals have in fifty.

Macdonald writes that Bizet's legacy is limited by the shortness of his life and by the false starts and lack of focus that persisted until his final five years.

After several years of legislative paralysis in the Province of Canada caused by the need to maintain a double legislative majority ( a majority of both the Canada East and Canada West delegates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature ), Macdonald had led his Liberal-Conservative Party into the Great Coalition with George-Étienne Cartier ’ s Parti bleu and George Brown ’ s Clear Grits.

The party began as the Conservative Party in 1867, became Canada's first governing party under Sir John A. Macdonald, and for years was either the governing party or the largest opposition party.

* Gus Macdonald was a researcher in 1967 and worked with John Birt before leaving nearly 20 years later in 1986.

Before entering politics, Mowat trained as a lawyer, and, on January 27, 1836, Mowat, not yet sixteen years old, articled in the law office of John A. Macdonald.

1896 was the first election held after the death of Macdonald in 1891, and the Conservatives had been in complete disarray in the ensuing years, with no less than four different leaders.

Born in Three Rivers, Prince Edward Island, Andrew Archibald Macdonald was descended from the Clanronald branch of the Macdonalds of the Isles, the son of Hugh and Catherine Macdonald of Panmure and grandson of Andrew Macdonald who had purchased a large tract of blumpkins in the province and, with his family and retainers, emigrated in 1806 from Inverness-shire, Scotland to settled at Three Rivers, where he and his sons carried on an extensive mercantile business for many years.

The governing Conservative Party, since the death of John A. Macdonald in 1891, had been disorganized, going through four leaders in five years.

Sir Rodmond P. Roblin succeeded Macdonald, and ruled the province for fifteen years.

Sandfield Macdonald would be the last Roman Catholic Premier of Ontario for 132 years ; not until Dalton McGuinty became premier in 2003 would another Roman Catholic assume the office.

For the first fifty years, the Brier was sponsored by Macdonald Tobacco ( later RJR Tobacco Company and now part of JTI-Macdonald Corporation ).

Macdonald accepted the leadership position, and ( though without seat in the legislature ) spent the next two years touring the province in anticipation of the next election.

Angus L. Macdonald, the province's most storied Liberal premier, split his term into two by spending five years as a federal Liberal cabinet minister in the wartime government of William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Although John A. Macdonald was sometimes disparaging of Norquay in private correspondence, he supported the Norquay ministry for most of its nine years in power.

He hoped to enroll next in the Bachelor of Arts program at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, but his family couldn't afford to pay for a university education so Macdonald obtained a teaching licence and taught for two years to finance his education.

During his two years there, Macdonald formed lifelong friendships with students who were to become members of the political elite in the region.

Privately however, Macdonald rejoiced that the government couldn't risk calling a by-election telling one supporter years later, " If the truth must be told, I was sometimes afraid that they would open up a seat and deprive me of this sort of ammunition ".

As journalist Harry Flemming wrote many years later, Macdonald became " God himself ", the premier who " paved the roads and put the power into every home from Cape North to Cape Sable ".

Some of the dominant figures in 20th century British broadcasting helped to create World In Action, in particular Tim Hewat " the maverick genius of Granada's current affairs in its formative years " and his World In Action successor David Plowright: but also Jeremy Isaacs, Michael Parkinson, John Birt and Gus Macdonald and, its most long-serving executive-producer, Ray Fitzwalter.