Part one of term paper
was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada in the years 1820 with his parents when he was five years old. He was educated at Midland District Grammar School and John Cruickshank School in Kingston, Ontario. John A. McDonald was married in 1843 to Isabelle Clark and had two sons but one died when he was a small baby. His first ...

Part two of term paper
... John A. McDonald worked with a Kingston lawyer at the age of fifteen, and by the time he was nineteen he had his own legal practice, he was a good businessman. He first got into politics in 1843 when he was a city alderman in Kingston, Ontario. He was elected to be the conservative person for Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. All through the 1860's, he worked in support of the Confederation, he made up an agreement called the British North American Act which was a ...