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Confederation

Pp53&54 ß 1. The family Macdonald s'etablit has itself Glenora, has the west of Kingston, in the High Canada. The pere of John prit some loads the mill but the matter was not a big succes. In any case, the mere of John had decide that his son would receive a good education. As for a lot of Scottish immigrants of the epoque, learn has to read and has ecrire etait of the more hautw importance for Helen Macdonald. Malgre his pitiful one, the family trouva the means to send John in a pension of Kingston. It appritla the mathematiques, the Latin, the history and the francais. The young John devorait deliver them. IT conserva all his life this passion for the reading. When it eut fifteen years, this some was finished school; its parents had not the means to send it has the universite. In this time it, the universites found has themselves Montreal, has Fredericton and has Halifax and that representait of...

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