Quote of the day
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
Alexander Mackenzie
Born: January 28, 1822
Died: April 17, 1892 (aged 70)
Bio: Alexander Mackenzie was a building contractor and newspaper editor, and was the second Prime Minister of Canada, from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
Known for:
- The Journals of Alexander MacKenzie
- The Spirit of St. Andrews







