J ohn A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in 1815. Some years ago, as the bicentennial of Macdonald’s birth neared, some civic-minded residents of the Ontario county in which I ...

The 24-hour darkness during the winter near the Poles can disrupt sleep – this is how the people who live there cope.

Macdonald arrived at the county seat of Picton in 1833 to train as a lawyer. The law would ultimately enrich him and enable him to enter politics. Yet he had not reached his 20th birthday when he ...