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FEATURED ACTIVITies
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Our featured summer event: Take our celebrated, theatrical “Walk In Sir John A’s Footsteps. Twice daily at 2pm and 4pm fromJuly 1 - September 1.
Visit Macdonald haunts in the core of beautiful downtown Kingston, led by Sir John A. himself, his wives, his colleagues.
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In June, SirJohnA2015 is taking “Sir John, Eh? The Road Show” on the VIA Rail railroad--from Halifax to Vancouver aboard VIA passenger trains. We’re also building giant puppets and learning to stilt walk for the Canada Day Parade. Work continues on building the Sir John A. Macdonald Online Reference Library. Lots of fun stuff on our website, blogs, Facebook, Twitter. A new play in the works for Cartier’s 200th birthday on September 6. Select a pamphlet below and learn more.
A #sirJAM Moment from our stop over in Winnipeg...
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Join in all the fun we’re having. Send a photo from anywhere in Canada of a place or thing your think should be (or, if your prefer, shouldn’t be) named after Sir John A. Macdonald. It’s a contest. You could win two tickets to Kingston on VIA Rail from any station in Canada! (click for details)
We're building a significant library of video material related to Sir John A. Macdonald on our YouTube channel. If you know of any we are missing, please let us know, email: info@sirjohna2015.ca
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RECENT EVENTS
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Canada Day, Kingston • with Sir John A.Kingston's annual Red and White parade celebrating Canada Day has never looked so good. Parading down Princess St. came a giant 15-foot tall Sir John A. Macdonald along with his first wife, Isabella, and a few of his confederates. They were joined by a marching band, stilt-walkers and a huge number of excited and inspired volunteers... (click for more)
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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 200th birthday 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). 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 a SirJohnA2015 legacy project. It’s a work in progress -- a 200th birthday gift for John A. It’s an online resource that looks at Canadian history and heritage through a John A. Macdonald lens. Images, documents, letters, publications, art works. and miscellaneous items. This Library aspires to become the definitive web source of information related to Canada's first Prime Minister.
Besides papers and images dating from the time of Sir John A., the Library will present relevant items of later provenance, including plays, audio recordings and videos. It will deploy cutting-edge technologies that provide fresh means for interacting with history. 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 Sir John A. Macdonald Video Collection is a legacy project of SirJohnA2015. It gathers together in one place the world’s best and most interesting short video productions pertaining to Macdonald’s life and legacy and makes them accessible and available to all, especially to classrooms in which Canada’s history is taught.
Already the Collection contains a series of brilliant stop-action videos by Jeremy Johnston and a suite of hilarious video teaching aids produced for SirJohnA2015 by Jesse Macmillan and SALON Acting Company. SirJohnA2015.ca will consider submissions from anyone for inclusion in this collection. Email us if you would like us to include your video in the collection. 
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STAY ON TOP OF the 200th!
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WHAT WE'RE DOINGHave a look at our "What We're Doing" page. Currently these include:
WHAT OTHERS ARE DOINGFind out what folks, groups and other organizations across Canada are doing to mark the 200th. If you have something planned, even just thinking about it, email us... we'll add it to our listings!
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