After facing a barrage of criticism for keeping its outdated biography of John A. Macdonald online for so long, Library and Archives Canada quietly posted a more accurate profile last July.

After facing a barrage of criticism for keeping its outdated biography of John A. Macdonald online for so long, Library and Archives Canada quietly posted a more accurate profile last July.

So writes Patrice Dutil, in his splendid new biography, Sir John A. Macdonald and the Apocalyptic Year 1885.

Journalist and commentator Richard Gwyn has won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for his biography of Canada's first prime minister.

Macdonald’s admirers are pushing back, but not with much force. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, like Andrew Scheer before him, has repeatedly objected to Sir John A’s cancellation.

Raymond J. de Souza: As Trudeau departs, Sir John A. Macdonald makes a comeback The facts of Canadian history — lights and shadows — are stubbornly reasserting themselves ...

Richard Gwyn has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times published by Random House Canada.

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The Library and Archives Canada biography of John A. Macdonald includes no references to residential schools or the Chinese head tax. Library and Archives Canada ...

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