12 Okt 1869 Jahr - John A. Macdonald (1869)
John A. Macdonald negotiated the
purchase of the huge Northwest
Territories from the Hudson's Bay
Company in 1869, and he persuaded
Manitoba, British Columbia, and Prince
Edward Island to join the Dominion.
Macdonald believed, however, that
Canada's Dominion would remain
symbolic a mere "geographic expression,"
as he put it until the government took
concrete action to make Canadian unity
and independence a reality.