Happy Birthday, John A. MacDonald!
January 12th, 2012Yesterday was the birthday of Sir John A. MacDonald, the first Prime Minister and founding father of Canada, and it went by pretty much unnoticed. Heck, if it weren’t for a Twitter update from Kate Beaton, I probably wouldn’t even have known it. Which is kind of funny, because, in contrast, George Washington’s birthday is celebrated as a statutory holiday (along with that Lincoln guy). It’s just one of the ways Canadians and Americans are very different people, I suppose.
