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Title
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Component part of
Bilingual equivalent
Date(s)
ca. 1845-1850
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent
Language of material
English
Scope and content
Item consists of a daguerreotype portrait of John A. Macdonald cased in a gold locket which was possibly carried by Macdonald himself. The locket also contains portraits of his first wife Isabella and his son Hugh John, both copied from oil paintings. When this portrait was made, John Alexander Macdonald was the newly elected member for Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of Canada (Ontario and Quebec), just beginning a distinguished 47-year political career during which he would become the first prime minister of Canada in 1867.
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To be viewed with the assistance of a ph
oto archivist.
Copy negative PA-121571
Colour transparency K-0000104
ENC 0016
Terms of use
Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. no. 1968-086, PA-121571
Copyright: expired
Restrictions on use: nil
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Additional information
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Reproduction note
Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: Facing History, Portraits from the National Archives of Canada. Curators: Susan North and Sylvie Gervais, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, 1993.
Subject heading
1. Prime ministers
2. Canada.
3. Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander),
Source
Private
Other system control no.
MIKAN no.
3192702
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