A rousing stump speaker, riveting in Parliament; Sir John A. was our greatest Prime Minister, says former PM Turner

Sir John A. had much of the force of a Cromwell, some of the compacting and conciliating tact of a Pitt, the sagacity of a Gladstone, and some of the shrewdness of a Disraeli. In an era of political giants and legends, Canada’s Macdonald was frontbench material on the world stage.

KINGSTON, ONT.—In the long sweep of Canadian history, this park, with its statue of Canada’s Father of Confederation proudly placed, is hallowed ground. 

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