“Rev. Dr. Thomas (delivered Mackenzie's eulogy) – “stood four square, to all the winds that blow.” (Buckingham and Ross 1892, p. 643, Tennyson’s Ode to the Death of the Duke of Wellington)”

— Alexander Mackenzie

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2nd Prime Minister of Canada 1822–1892

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