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4 unusual facts about John A. Macdonald


1900–01 MHA season

Honorary club president Hugh John Macdonald, former Manitoba premier, and son of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald made a speech.

Corydon Partlow Brown

One of Brown's most important tasks during his time at Public Works was to convince the serving Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, that the future of Manitoba depended on the issuing of railway charters (disallowed by Ottawa).

Shawn Doyle

In fall 2011 he starred as the future first Canadian prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald in the CBC TV movie John A.: Birth of a Country.

Universal pragmatics

For example, the utterance "The first Prime Minister of Canada" refers to a man who went by the name of Sir John A. Macdonald.


1913 Great Meteor Procession

John A. O'Keefe, who conducted several studies of the event, proposed that the meteors should be referred to as the Cyrillids, in reference to the feast day of Cyril of Alexandria (February 9 in the Roman Catholic calendar from 1882–1969).

Aircraft Situation Display to Industry

The Aircraft Situation Display to Industry (or ASDI) data stream is a service made available through the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe Transportation Center.

Barbara Oliver Hagerman

Her duties as Lieutenant Governor were briefly performed by John A. McQuaid from 12–13 March 2008 as the Administrator of Prince Edward Island).

Betsy Markey

After completing a degree in Political Science, Markey worked for a short period of time on the staff of U.S. Senator John A. Durkin (D-NH).

Bowery Amphitheatre

By 1880 the name was changed to the Windsor Theater (under the management of John A. Stevens), which burnt down in November 1883, but was rebuilt and by 1885 was the Windsor Roller Skating Rink.

Brehm Preparatory School

Carbondale was selected largely due to proximity to resources in higher education such as Southern Illinois University and John A. Logan College.

Bruce E. MacDonald

After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

Caddell

John A. Caddell (1910–2006), American lawyer in the state of Alabama

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

David R. Macdonald

In 1976, President of the United States Gerald Ford nominated Macdonald as Under Secretary of the Navy and Macdonald held this office from September 14, 1976 to February 4, 1977.

Dwight B. LaDu

He was Division Engineer of the Eastern Division of the State Canals under John A. Bensel, and in 1914 was appointed Special Deputy State Engineer, a post he retained under Frank M. Williams.

Electronics Research Center

The campus is now the site of the United States Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.

Gordon J. F. MacDonald

MacDonald's early skepticism regarding plate tectonics stemmed from his detailed study, with Walter Munk, of the rotation of the Earth.

H. Richard Winn

H. Richard Winn, MD, trained in Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville under John A. Jane, MD, PhD.

John A. Caldwell

Caldwell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1889, until May 4, 1894, when he resigned.

John A. Elston

Elston was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915 - December 15, 1921).

John A. Fallon

Fallon was terminated by Eastern Michigan University on July 15, 2007 following a scandal related to the Murder of Laura Dickinson, which took place on the campus the previous year.

John A. Gambling

He is survived by his wife, two daughters and his son, John R. Gambling, the host of The John Gambling Show, the current morning show on WOR.

John A. Garcia

Neighbors at his beach home complained that celebrities Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton were bringing an unwanted element to the community.

John A. Gilruth

In New Zealand from 1893, he spent three years investigating stock diseases, then a year at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

John A. Kasson

He served in that position until 1885, when he was named as a special envoy to the Congo International Conference in Berlin.

John A. Kay

He became involved with the construction of the South Carolina State House in 1854, first as Peter H. Hammarskold's project superintendent, and later as assistant architect under George E. Walker.

John A. Lafevre House and School

The John A. Lafevre House and School is located along NY 208 in the town of Gardiner, New York, United States.

John A. Lynch

John A. Lynch, Sr. (1908–1978), member of New Jersey Senate and Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey (1951–1955)

John A. M. Adair

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses).

John A. Oremus

In 2008 the Oremus family sold Prairie Material to VCNA, the North American division of Votorantim.

John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge

This very closely resembled the opposition to the Brooklyn Bridge that would be voiced in New York City 30 years later.

John A. Whitaker

He was reelected to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from April 17, 1948, until his death in Russellville, Kentucky, December 15, 1951.

John A. Williams

The Man Who Cried I Am, a fictionalized account of the life and death of Richard Wright, introduced the King Alfred Plan - a fictional CIA-led scheme supporting an international effort to eliminate people of African descent.

John A. Wise

NAI manufactures a nutritional supplement known as Juice Plus+ for National Safety Associates.

John Burbank

John A. Burbank (1827–1905), American businessman and the fourth Governor of Dakota Territory

John Denison

John A. Denison, American Politician of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1875-1948

John J. Cove

Around the same time, he became influenced by the structuralist approaches of Claude Lévi-Strauss and, through the help of George F. MacDonald, began an intensive study of the Tsimshianic narratives collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.

Julie MacDonald

Julie A. MacDonald (born 1955), former U.S. Department of the Interior official

Lawrence Edwards

Advocated for the New York City region as well as a Boston to Washington line by the Regional Plan Association, — the invention was praised by Secretary of Transportation John Volpe as well as editorials in The New York Times and professional and scientific journals.

Lucien Sanial

Sanial would publish on the theme in 1901 in a seminal pamphlet entitled Territorial Expansion, anticipating the work of John A. Hobson (1902) and Vladimir Ul'yanov (Lenin) (1916).

Malachy Bowes Daly

At Halifax, July 4, 1859, he married Joanna Kenny, second daughter of Sir Edward Kenny, a cabinet minister in the Sir John A. Macdonald government.

Margolis Brown Adaptors Company

As co-artistic directors, Margolis and Brown have thus far co-authored, directed, and sometimes performed in 16 full-length theatrical productions, as well as numerous site-specific works at such places as the Brooklyn Museum, Coney Island, and the historic John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge on the Delaware River.

Mark A. Lutz

He is a proponent of Humanistic economics, strongly influenced by political economy of Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi, the social economics of John Hobson, and various (heterodox) ideas of current thinkers, especially Herman Daly on environment, John Culbertson on trade, and David Ellerman on economic democracy.

Mount Macdonald

The original name of the peak was Mount Carroll, but was renamed to honour the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald.

Omaha City Council

It was composed of A. D. Jones, who resigned March 23, 1857; T. G. Goodwill, who died May 18, 1857; G. C. Bove, H. H. Visscher, Thomas Davis, William N. Byers, William W. Wyman, Thomas O'Connor, C. H. Downs, J. H. Kellom, for whom Kellom School was later named; and John Creighton, whom Creighton University was later named for.

Open Christmas Letter

At least one of the signers was an American: Florence Edgar Hobson was the New York-born wife of English Liberal social theorist and economist John A. Hobson.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Sociology of literature

John A. Hall, (1979), The Sociology of Literature, London: Longman.

St. Anne's Anglican Church

The artwork by J. E. H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, and Franklin Carmichael is religious iconography, something they are not generally known for.

The Casinos

Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

Vegetarian nutrition

Doctors Dean Ornish, T. Colin Campbell, John A. McDougall, Caldwell Esselstyn and Neal D. Barnard claim that high animal fat and protein diets, such as the standard American diet, are detrimental to health.

William J. MacDonald

William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), American banker who endowed an astronomical observatory


see also

2011 Governor General's Awards

Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891

Alexander Morris

He ran as a Liberal-Conservative in the riding of Lanark South in Canada West, supporting the government of George-Étienne Cartier and John A. Macdonald.

CCGS John A. Macdonald

The CCGS John A Macdonald was awarded the U.S. Coast Guard Unit Commendation "for extremely meritorious service in the support of United States Coast Guard operations during the period of 23 September 1967 to 08 October 1967", during the Arctic West Summer (AWS) 1967 cruise by Admiral (ADM) Willard J. Smith, Commandant, United States Coast Guard.