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Thomas D'Arcy McGee was a journalist, poet, Irish patriot, Canadian statesman, and Father of Confederation who was born in Ireland and involved in nationalist politics there. Forced to flee to America in 1848, he worked for several years in the United States before settling in Montréal in 1857. In 1858 he was first elected to the legislature for Montréal West. An eloquent supporter of Confederation, he attended the Charlottetown and Québec Conferences and later represented Montréal West in the House of Commons until he was felled near this site by an assassin's bullet on April 7, 1868.
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