92 WITH MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE 



Archdeacon Lauder, Bishop Lewis, and Sir John 

 and Lady Macdonald. 



It is something to be proud of to have met Sir 

 John Macdonald and to possess a photograph given 

 to me by himself, which is reproduced here. His 

 likeness to Lord Beaconsfield was so striking, as will 

 be seen from this picture, that he was known far 

 and wide as the Disraeli of Canada. When we 

 were at Ottawa he was Prime Minister of the Do- 

 minion. His whole career was so remarkable that 

 I may be pardoned for giving a brief summary of it 

 for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with it. 



The son of a Sutherland yeoman, he was born in 

 Glasgow in 1815. When he was five years old his 

 parents emigrated to Canada, took the boy with 

 them, and settled at Kingston, Ontario. Young 

 John, in due course, after a grammar-school edu- 

 cation, took to the ** study and practice of the law,'* 

 was called to the bar in 1836, and came into 

 some prominence three years later by his able 

 defence of the raider Von Schultz. He rose to be 

 Attorney-General in several Ministries, and in 

 1856 he succeeded Sir A. MacNab as leader of the 

 Conservative party. His personal influence with his 

 party was never equalled by any statesman in Canada, 

 and he was practically responsible for the creation 



