Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee 🇮🇪

Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee (Known as "The Canadian Orator")
Father of Confederation, Poet, Orator, Member of Parliament
Born Apr 13, 1825 🇮🇪 Carlingford (County Louth), Ireland
Passed Away Apr 07, 1868 Ottawa, Canada
Lifespan 42 years old
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"I see in the not distant future a great nationality, bound together by mutual interests and mutual affections."

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Passionate Irish-Canadian orator and Father of Confederation whose poetic vision of a new northern nationality inspired Confederation, and who became Canada's first assassinated politician.

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A former Young Ireland revolutionary who fled to the United States before settling in Montreal in 1857, McGee was captivated by the promise of Canada as a land free from the sectarian hatreds of the Old World. Elected to parliament, he became the most lyrical champion of Confederation.

McGee vigorously denounced the Fenian Brotherhood's violent raids into Canada, alienating radical Irish nationalists. On April 7, 1868, after delivering an impassioned parliamentary speech advocating national unity, McGee was shot dead outside his Ottawa boarding house in Canada's most notorious political assassination.

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Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery
Montreal, Canada
GPS: 45.4986, -73.6053
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