{"id":23040,"date":"2019-02-21T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=23040"},"modified":"2019-02-21T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:02:54","slug":"a-word-for-john-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/a-word-for-john-a\/","title":{"rendered":"A word for John A."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just want to say I enjoyed your editorial (Brock\u2019s Banter) in the February 7 issue.
\nI always enjoy your editorials and relate to the majority of them.
\nI, as well as you, was not familiar with Viola Desmond until 2016 when her name was put forward to replace the first Prime Minister and the Father of our country Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, on our ten dollar bill.
\nAlthough I have all the respect in the world for Ms. Desmond and am proud of her action and related feats, I am bewildered how she should replace someone as revered as John A.
\nNot for a second am I saying she should not be portrayed on our money, but I am saying she should not replace Macdonald.
\nSure, Macdonald had his faults and as we look back he did things we think aberrant in today\u2019s world but it was the normal thinking back then.
\nIt would be instilled in him from childhood. He was not some tyrant or dictator but one man in a legislature of many of which all had a vote as did he.
\nI am proud of Sir John A. Macdonald for his achievements not the least of was the building of a railroad system from coast to coast. The bringing together of the French and the English in Upper and Lower Canada. Today\u2019s government can\u2019t even get a pipe line through a couple of provinces.
\nI have never been prejudiced. I was raised in a very protestant, Orange Lodge, family but some of my best friends were and are Roman Catholics. Some of my best friends were and are black and brown skinned people.
\nI don\u2019t care where people are from but if they choose Canada as their new country it\u2019s because Canada is one of the best in the world so don\u2019t try to change it to what you left.<\/p>\n

John H. Archibald
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I just want to say I enjoyed your editorial (Brock\u2019s Banter) in the February 7 issue. I always enjoy your editorials and relate to the majority of them. I, as well as you, was not familiar with Viola Desmond until 2016 when her name was put forward to replace the first Prime Minister and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5ZC","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 18:20:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}