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After a parliamentary career spanning 47 years , a pivotal Father of Confederation, Canada’s first Prime Minister, spoke his last-ever words in the House of Commons on this date in 1891. Two months before, Sir John A. had received his sixth majority mandate from the citizens of the young country he did so much to establish.
“When the High Commissioner was taking his tour through Canada,” MP William Paterson asked Macdonald, “it was stated in the press that he travelled by special train. I would like to know whether that was the case, and if so, what was the cost of that train and out of what fund it was defrayed?” “The right honourable gentleman stated candidly that he came out to attend the elections,” Cartwright said. “The First Minister has been, however, altogether too modest. I, as a citizen of Kingston, beg to state that it was to the First Minister’s own special and earnest care of his constituents, he was indebted for his increased majority. The First Minister had been a good nursing father or mother, whichever he prefers to be called, to the citizens of Kingston for the last three or four years.
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