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John A. Macdonald and Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Favourite Son? John A. Macdonald and the Voters of Kingston
Ged Martin
Kingston, Ontario, Kingston Historical Society, , ISBN: ; pp.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee. 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, The early Irish and American career of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
David Wilson
Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, , ISBN: ; pp.
Both of these books are about an important figure in 19th-century Canadian political history. Few books on purely Canadian topics are reviewed for this website. However, both of these men will be of interest to historians outside of Canada. They were born in the British Isles and had political careers that transcended the boundaries of the present-day Canadian nation-state. It is therefore appropriate that these works should feature here.
Ged Martin is well qualified to undertake a revisionist study of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of the Canadian federation. Martin, who recently retired as director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, has had a long career publishing on imperial and Commonwealth history. Martin has written on Canadian Confederation, an event in which Macdonald was an important player, as well as on the histories of Australian, New Zealand,
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Singing for an unsung Canadian political icon
Celtic Studies and history professor David Wilson’s recent book tour in support of his two-volume biography of Irish-Canadian politician Thomas D’Arcy McGee was far from the standard academic promotional junket. Eschewing campus bookstores and lecture halls for nightclubs and theatres, the tour was more like something undertaken by a rock band promoting a new album.
Backed by a group of Ottawa and Montreal-area musicians known as The McGee Band, Wilson created a dramatic performance as lively and engaging as the charismatic Father of Canadian Confederation himself.
“I love writing and performance art, and I play traditional music, too,” said Wilson when asked about enlisting a musical act to support the story.
He had been introduced to The McGee Band several years ago after learning of their album inspired by the life of McGee. The band fuses a blend of Irish, Scottish and Québécois music into their original compositions, so it’s as if the project – Irish Rebel, Canadian Icon: The Life and Times of D’Arcy McGee in Words and Music – was just waiting to happen.
“I went to Ottawa to meet with them and within a few days we had a rough outline of a show,” said Wilson. It resulted in a minute program that sees Wilson spin a n