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Thomas D’Arcy McGee, 1868, by William Notman (1826-1891) Thomas D’Arcy McGee (1825-1868) was an Irish radical who established a reputation as a journalist, politician, poet and historian. A man of vision and eloquence, McGee championed the cause of Canadian nationalism, the federation of British North America, a transcontinental railway, the settlement of the West and the development of a distinctive literature. He was assassinated on Ottawa’s Sparks Street a week before his 43rd birthday.
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