The Kingston Historical Society invites you to remember Sir John A. Macdonald on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Please join us at 1:30 pm. in Kingston’s Cataraqui Cemetery to remember Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John Alexander Macdonald, who died on this day in 1891.

This year our guest speaker is Dr. Duncan McDowall of Queen’s University. He is noted for the op-ed pieces and essays in popular history he has contributed to such national publications as The National Post, The Queen’s Quarterly, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. Hist recent publications include The Sum of the Satisfactions, on Canada’s highly-acclaimed system of national accounts, and Another World: Bermuda and the Rise of Modern Tourism. In 2016, Dr. McDowall wrote a history of Queen’s University since 1961, under the title Queen’s University, Volume III, 1961-2004: Testing Tradition.

His address is titled “Sir John A. Swings on the Pendulum of History.”

Following Dr. McDowall’s talk wreaths will be laid at Sir John’s graveside.

Before and after the ceremony, visitors are welcome to tour the historic and picturesque Cataraqui Cemetery, which is now a National Historic Site.