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             Canada has had many notable Prime Ministers over the course of her lifetime. Pierre Elliot Trudeau brought the constitution home to Canada. Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Peace prize. William Lyon MacKenzie King was the longest serving Prime Minister in Canadian history and our leader through the Second World War. Sir Wilfred Laurier, a liberal Prime Minister, built on the National Policy, which was the legacy of, the greatest of our Prime Ministers, Sir John A. MacDonald. This is his story.
             Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and greatest Prime Minister, was born on either January 10 or 11, 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland. When he was 5 years old, his family immigrated to Kingston in Upper Canada. Kingston was to become the site of his strongest and least wavering support throughout his political career. It was in Kingston that young John, at the age of fifteen, began his legal studies. "John was articled to a young Scottish lawyer, George Mackenzie, late of Ernesttown, and now of Kingston." It was during this apprenticeship to Mackenzie that he began to exhibit his unique aptitude for camaraderie. "It began to seem probable that this tall, saturnine, rather ugly young man, with his reserved, studious manner, and off-hand, non-committal ways, might have a special talent for friendship, an almost creative ability for companionship and conviviality." This uncanny ability at/capacity for friendship was the backbone of his political career, as the people of Canada always found a way to trust him, even after he lost his office as the Prime Minister due to the Pacific Scandal. .
             When young John turned 19, he started his own legal practice in Kingston and he shortly became known as a quick-witted and ingenious trial lawyer. "Mowat and the Kingston Scots in general were coming to regard the new Quarry Street lawyer as their own professional man, the man to whom their bright boys and their business would be sent, just as they had been sent a few years before to the great George Mackenzie himself.


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