John MacDonald

Sir John MacDonald GCB PC QC (11 January 1815 - 6 June 1891) was a Canadian colonial administrator, businessman, politician and soldier. He was a veteran of the Ontario Rebellion of 1837. During his career, he served as first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, first Attorney-General of the Dominion of Canada and first Ambassador for the British Empire to the Republic of the United States.

MacDonald's administration governed Canada between 1867-1873 and 1878-1891, during which time the Provinces of British North America were centralised into a confederated Kingdom, the state expanded it's territory threefold, the Cree-Metis Rebellion of 1885 occurred and construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed; then the largest railroad in the world and the centrepiece of the most extensive assembly of human infrastructure ever developed. During his tenure, he annexed the territories of the British Hudson Bay Company, developed the constitutional law of the Dominion and upheld the principles of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, issued by His Majesty, King George III.

Personally, MacDonald authored the British North America Act, 1867, the Constitution of the Dominion of Canada, erecting the nation's first self-governing, colonial Kingdom and rendering the Canadian diaspora an equal of Great Britain in the affairs of the British Empire; this constitution would serve as the legal foundation of the Dominions of Australia, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa, four other states founded by the British colonial diaspora. Later, as Prime Minister of the new Dominion, MacDonald drafted and introduced the Beringian Act, 1876, enshrining the principles of King George III's Proclamation of 1763 in law; this proclamation guaranteed the respect of the Crown & Nation in regards to the territorial sovereignty of the 614 tribes of British North America with which the Crown maintained treaties and deliberated the relationship between the Crown, the Dominion and the tribes. This act and the treaties themselves were, thus, vested in the Dominion's Constitution.