Little Known Facts...

...about Sir John A.:

10 things you didn’t know about Canada’s first prime minister

Some of these are downright hilarious. For example:

"The 1864 Charlottetown Conference that founded Canada was only supposed to include representatives of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, who were gathering to discuss forming a Maritime union. Sensing an opportunity to build a nation, Macdonald and his pro-Confederation allies sailed the steamship Queen Victoria from Quebec to P.E.I. and crashed the conference. Aided by $13,000 worth of champagne that he brought along to the party, Macdonald sweet-talked the Maritimers into expanding the union to become Canada in 1867."

So that's how Canada came into being. I wonder what would have happened had Sir John been a sober sort?

And this:

"With his rugged face and wild hair, Macdonald was a dead ringer for British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). The resemblance was so uncanny, one official at Disraeli’s funeral in London mistook Macdonald for Disraeli’s ghost."

It Just Doesn't Get Any Better Than That

Paris march sees ‘unprecedented’ turnout, with up to 1.5 million people flooding streets

Looks like no one is coming to poor old John A.'s birthday party. On google.news.ca there's one article about his birthday and eight, or more, about the Paris attack and several about what appears to be copy-cat attacks in numerous other places:

Ashton Larmond and Carlos Larmond appear in court on terrorism charges

Condemnations of n. Lebanon attack pour in


Attack on German newspaper raises tension before anti-Islam rally