John A. Macdonald, 1875. Image from Library and Archives Canada
Today is commonly regarded as the birthday of Sir John A. Macdonald. In honour of the day, Arthur Milnes, a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen’s University, has published some thoughts on the state of Canadian political biography. As someone who will soon be teaching a course on the “Life and and Times of Sir John A. Macdonald”, I appreciate his call for the production of more political biography in Canada!
Milnes is a prolific author. Check out the list of his publications on Amazon.ca.
Update: Andrew Coyne has also published a few thoughts on Macdonald day.
I have uploaded a link to the draft of the syllabus of the “Life and Times of Macdonald” course. Please note that this isn’t the finalized version.
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