sir john a. macdonald

A project featuring a statue of every Canadian PM has become a politically charged minefield as the legacies of the nation’s early leaders are reappraised according to contemporary standards

Despite efforts to remove and relocate them, monuments and tributes to Canada’s founding father still dot the country. We scouted them out for you.

John Geddes on the reason we remember Sir John A. and the importance of weighing historical figures based on more than their flaws

Canada is suffering from a rampant myopic urge to erase the entirety of its history. Why it’s time to stop the attacks on our past.

Let us celebrate the nakedly partisan milestones of this great (since 2006) country

Maclean’s readers write in

Rt. Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowell: Without question Canada’s greatest bearded prime minister

Two Canadians make a pilgrimage to the founding PM’s birthplace and are surprised by what they find

John Geddes on tradition and the Hill

Sir John A.’s skills as a consensus builder are lost on our modern leaders