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Show D'AHCY ileGEE. The Hon. Thomas d'Arcy MeGoc, to whose nrem-ory nrem-ory a belated statue is about to be erected in Parliament Parlia-ment square. Ottawa he was hot dead close at that very spot by a mid-night, assassin thirty-six years ago was one of ihe leaders of the. '48 insurrection insur-rection in Ireland, .who succeeded in escaping across the Atlantic. He was a versatile genius poet, historian, orator, aiyl statesman. He played a leading part in the confederation of Canada, and after it was accomplished sat in the federal House of Commons as one of the members for Montreal an a Minister of the Crown. . It is remarkable that two of the leaders of- the '48 rebellion in Ireland became federal builders in Greater Britain Mc-Gee Mc-Gee in Canada and Sir Charles! Cava n Duffy in Australia. |