On Jan. 2, Thomas McGreevy died in Quebec City at the age of 71. Born in that same city on July 29, 1825, he would serve as an MP from 1867 to 1891 and from 1895 to 1896. That gap was because he was expelled from the House of Commons for corruption...
After one of the most famous Governors General in our history left the country in 1893, he was replaced by a relatively unknown Governor General named John Hamilton-Gordon, the First Marquess of Aberdeen. For the first time in this series, as well...