FEATURED ACTIVITY
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We at SirJohnA2015 are currently planning this summer's SALON Theatre performances; continuing to build the Sir John A. Macdonald Library; laying plans for more cross-Canada VIA Rail trips and town halls; and creating an event to mark Sir George-Étienne Cartier’s 200th birthday in September.
You can help celebrate the bicentennial of our first Prime Minister's 200th birthday as January 11, 2015 steadily approaches. One way, a fun way, is to take a picture of something anywhere in Canada named after Sir John A. Macdonald. Or you could photograph something you feel should be named for him. You might even win two tickets to Kingston on VIA Rail from any station in Canada! (click text for details) |
Principal Activities
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As Canada nears the 200th birthday of its first prime minister and primary architect, SirJohnA2015 is moderating a Conversation about Sir John A’s legacy—warts and all.
We’re deploying today’s tools to examine our past, consider our present and look forward to our future. History, heritage, art, social justice, system of government. +Plus. There’s room for all points-of-view in this online/offline ‘Conversation’. We invite you to join in. |
SirJohnA2015 invites Canada to discover Sir John, Eh? The Road Show, a musical, theatrical romp through Sir John A’s life and legacy, created and performed by SALON Acting Company. It’s magic. For all ages. Setting the stage for Sir John A. Macdonald’s Bicentennial in 2015.
From Canada Day to Labour Day the Company performs Road Show variations in the streets of Kingston, Ontario (Walk In Sir John A’s Footsteps). Onboard VIA trains running between Halifax and Vancouver. Touring Canadian schools (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario so far)—next tour: October, 2014. If you’re lucky you might catch the show in a mall or park near you. Or as the star attraction at a Macdonald Town Hall meeting in your home town. |
About the Library
The Sir John A. Macdonald Library is an online resource intended to benefit appreciation of Canadian history and politics. The database compiles archival items—images, documents, letters and miscellaneous items—pertinent to the life and career of Sir John A. Macdonald. By presenting these materials online, the Library aspires to become the definitive web destination for scholars researching Canada's first Prime Minister. Besides papers and images dating from the time of Sir John A., the Library presents relevant items of later provenance, including plays, audio recordings and videos. The Library's resources soon will include an annotated bibliography. In keeping with the ambitions of the Library itself, our bibliography aspires to be the single most comprehensive list of sources for the study of Sir John A's life and milieu. |
The goal for the Sir John A. Macdonald Video Collection is to gather together in one place the world’s best short video
productions pertaining to Macdonald’s life and legacy and make them accessible
and available to all, especially to classrooms in which Canada’s history is
taught.
Already the Collection contains a series (link) of brilliant stop-action videos by Jeremy Johnston and a suite (link) of hilarious video teaching aids produced for SirJohnA2015 by Jesse Macmillan and SALON Acting Company. Finalists from the Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Video Competition will be featured. SirJohnA2015.ca will consider submissions from anyone for inclusion in this collection. |
STAY ON TOP OF the 200th!
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WHAT WE'RE DOINGHave a look at our "What we're Doing" page. This provides the most up to date listing of activities underway, and those about to begin. Current these include:
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