Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada ( 1867 – 1873, 1878 – 1891 )

Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada, told an Ottawa audience at Lansdowne Park in 1874: “ The Duke of Wellington had previously decided that Ottawa was a most important point from a military point of view and had caused the Rideau canal to be built .”

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