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Assembly^ a conference took place between the leaders on both sides, which resulted in a coalition, with the view of maturing and carrying a measure to unite in one govern- ment Canada and the maritime provinces. On the death of Sir E. P. Tache, in July, 1865, Mr. Macdonald again became Minister of Militia, which office, with that of Attorney - (General of Upi)er Canada, he continued to hold till Confederation. This union of the provinces of British North America he was mainly instrumental in bringing about, having been a dele- gate to the Conference in Charlotte- town in 1864, and in Quebec, in the same year j and was Chairman of the London Colonial Conference, 1866-7, when the Act of Union known as the "British North America Act," was passed by the Imperial Parliament. On the 1st July, 1867, when the new Constitu- tion came into force, Mr. Macdonald was called upon to form the first GK)vemment for the New Dominion, and was sworn of the Privy Coun- cil and appointed Minister of Jus- tice and Attorney - General of Canada, an office he continued to fill until he and his Ministry re- signed on the Pacific EaUway charges, Nov., 1873. In 1871 Mr. Macdonald was one of H.M. Joint High Commissioners and Plenipo- tentiaries to act in connection with the Commission named by the President of the U.S. for the settle- ment of the Alabama Claims, re- sulting in the Treaty of Washing- ton, May, 1871. In Oct., 1878, on the fall of the Mackenzie Eeform Government, Mr. Macdonald was entrusted with the task of forming a new Administration, taking him- self the position of Minister of the Interior and Premier of the Do- minion, which he still holds. He at present sits for Victoria, British Columbia. In 1865, Mr. Macdonald received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford; and in 1867 was made a
K.C.B. In 1872 he was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Eoyal Order of Isabel la Catolica (of Spain). For nearly forty years Sir John Macdonald has been the acknowledged leader of the Conser- vative Party of Upper Canada.
MACDOUGALL, The Eight Eev. Fbancis Thomas, D.C.L.,born at Sydenham in 1817, was educated for the medical profession at King's College, London, where he obtained the gold medal in 1837. He became a member and a fellow of the Col- lege of Surgeons, and Demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College ; but, abandoning his profession, entered at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he received the honorary degree of M. A . in 1845, and afterwards that of D.C.L. He was ordained in 1845, and having held several curacies in the dioceses of Norwich and London, proceeded with Sir J. Brooke as chief missionary to Borneo in 1847, and was consecrated to the bishopric of Labuan, in that island, in 1855. In that capacity his knowledge of medicine and physical science was of the greatest service in facilitat- ing the progress of missionary enter- prise, and, consequently, of civiliz- ation. He returned to England in 1868, was presented to the vicarage of Godmanchester, in the county of Huntingdon, and obtained a canonry in the cathedral church of Ely, which preferments he resigned in 1873, on being appointed a Canon of Win- chester. He became Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight in 1874. Bishop Macdougall has published a trans- lation of the Book of Common Prayer into Malay, Singapore, 1858, and a "Catechism of the Christian Eeli- gion in Malay and English," 1868.
McDOUGALL, The Hon, Wil- liam, C.B., member of the Canadian parliament, born at Toronto, Jan . 25, 1822, is of Scotch descent. His grandfather having emigrated to America before the Eevolution, and fought on the British side through- out the war, on its termination re- moved to Canada, where he received
