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Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Canadian Father of Confederation (1825–1868)
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was part of the Young Ireland attempts to overthrow British rule and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fathers of Confederation
List of the founders of Canada
The Fathers of Confederation are the 36 people who attended at least one of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864, the Quebec Conference of 1864, and the London Conference of 1866, preceding Canadian Confederation. Only twelve people attended all three conferences.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fenian
Secret Irish republican political organisations
The word Fenian served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood. They were secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated to the establishment of an…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)