Zoomer Magazine – September 2019

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Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A.

Macdonald, appeared on the only $500 bill

ever issued in Canada, wearing a formal

shirt and fur-collared coat In other words,

he was dressed exactly like someone you’d

expect to be carrying around a $500 bill.

What feuds between politicians and media

looked like before cable news In 1910, a

Saskatchewan newspaper boy famously blew

off a conversation with Canada’s seventh

PM, Sir Wilfrid Laurier. The boy grew up to

be Canada’s 13th PM, John Diefenbaker.

In 1923, PM Lester Pearson’s Oxford

hockey team won the inaugural Spengler

Cup Though Pearson didn’t look like a

future Nobel Peace Prize winner as he

pulled an opposing player’s jersey over his

head and rocked him with uppercuts.

This explains the Grateful Dead and

Jefferson Airplane posters they found at

24 Sussex Drive after she left Canada’s

first female PM, Kim Campbell, is also

Canada’s first baby boomer PM.

He predicted our PM 40 years early but

couldn’t muster the slightest premonition

about Watergate? U.S. President Richard

Nixon, during a 1972 state visit with then-

PM Pierre Trudeau, famously exclaims,

“I’d like to toast the future prime minister

of Canada – to Justin Pierre Trudeau.”

“This,” uttered a despondent royal chef,

“will do no favours for the reputation

of British cuisine” PM Sir John Thompson,

49, dies of a heart attack while lunching with

Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1894.

Stephen Harper, the only PM known to

employ a personal stylist, refused to

disclose her taxpayer-funded salary

The stylist developed his trademark “Lego-

man hair and dark suit” esthetic, which

is in fashion whether you’re out on the

campaign trail or proroguing Parliament.

THE PEAKS AND VALLEYS IN THE JOURNEY

By Mike Crisolago

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