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Gettysburg
Sir William McDougall, one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation, attended President Abraham Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address in 1863. McDougall was in the U.S. to renegotiate the Reciprocity Treaty, a trade agreement between the U.S. and British Territories of Canada, when the President invited him to the opening of the new Gettysburg Cemetery. The two were personal friends. |