Burying Sir John A. Macdonald - Macleans.ca
Year Ahead 2021 Burying Sir John A. Macdonald The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place December 18, 2020 The head of a statue of Sir John A. MacDonald in Montreal, in August 2020 (Graham Hughes/CP) Mi’kmaq historian Daniel Paul believes that Sir John A. Macdonald’s days in the sun are numbered. Paul, 81, is the author of We Were Not the Savages, a landmark 1993 book that for the first time told the history of Atlantic Canada from the Mi’kmaq perspective. In the 1980s, Paul brought to light scalp proclamations iss...