Caption: Historica's next Heritage Moment arrives Saturday, just in time for Sir John A. Macdonald's birthday. Watch a 14-second preview. Open Full Embed in New Tab ...

The 2014 return of the Canadian Heritage Minutes – those brief interludes from the 1990s when TV viewers got a glimpse of the nation's past by way of costumed actors in dramatic skits – will put a ...

Which makes Saturday the 199th anniversary of his birth. It’s not clear how Ottawa’s Sir John A pub on Elgin St is going to mark the occasion (seriously guys, where’s your game?), but fortunately the ...

Canada’s first prime minister has been deemed too “polarizing and controversial” to warrant any new federally-sponsored commemoration, a federal board recommended.

A new poster celebrating Sikh Heritage Month features a quote from 1867 in which Sir John A. Macdondald called for 'an army of Sikhs' to be sent from India to protect the country.

Share this Story : ‘Wily’ John A. Macdonald — complete with bottle of booze — finally the subject of new Heritage Minute ...

READ: A statue of John A. Macdonald rests in purgatory. Sir John A. is on a losing streak, and Paul thinks it won’t be long before all the statues of Canada’s first prime ministers are in storage.

City of Kingston employees remove graffiti from the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald on Jan. 11, 2013, the 198th anniversary of his birth. “This is stolen land,” reads the defacing graffiti.

Symbolically imprisoned Sir John A. Macdonald will soon be free from his box. Tuesday was not just a day fit for a King but for the Father of Canadian Confederation, too. On a day where the King ...

Prince Edward County's heritage committee voted Wednesday to "acknowledge" a working group's recommendation to remove a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Picton.

Heritage Minute, Sir John A. Macdonald from Historica Canada on Vimeo. “If George Washington had been born in Glasgow there would be a huge, gaudy mausoleum to him.” says McNamee.