Sir John A. Macdonald: 5 Frightening Facts About Our First Prime Minister
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1. During the American Civil War (1861 to 1865), Montreal served as refuge to Confederates — southern Americans who wanted to keep slavery and secede from the United States union. The Southern slavers found a friend in John A. Macdonald.
2. John A. Macdonald may have named Canada a "confederation" in deference to the Southern Confederates with whom he sympathized.
3. John A. Macdonald was a sinophobe, according to Timothy J. Stanley's research.
4. John A. Macdonald was way more racist than his contemporaries.
5. John A. Macdonald's policies of forced starvation helped clear First Nations from the prairies in order to build the railway, according to James Daschuk of University of Regina. An excerpt from his book, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life:
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