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Subject: Today In History Jan 11
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:13:26 EST
Jan 11,1815
(http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/images/otd.98.01.11.a.lg.gif) Happy
Birthday John Alexander Macdonald
politician, born on this day at Glasgow, Scotland in 1815, the son of Hugh
Macdonald and Helen Shaw; died in Ottawa June 6, 1891, Ontario in 1938.
Macdonald moved to Kingston, Ontario with his parents at the age of five. He was to
become the first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1867-73,
1878-91). (His birth is marked on this day; in actual fact, he was born late on the
10th,, and his birth registered the following day.)
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Jan 11,1747 Minas Nova Scotia - Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers 1708-1750
leads 240 Canadians and 60 Indians from Chebucto against on the Chignecto;
2nd-in-command of French forces under Ramezay.
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