Susan Agnes Macdonald née Bernard was the second wife of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. She was granted the title Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe following her husband's death in 1891. She was born near Spanish Town, Jamaica to The Honourable T.J. Bernard and his wife, Theodora Foulks. She was raised there and in England before she came to Canada with her mother to live with her brother, Hewitt, a lawyer. It was through him that she met Sir John A.

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  • Susan Agnes Macdonald née Bernard was the second wife of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. She was granted the title Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe following her husband's death in 1891. She was born near Spanish Town, Jamaica to The Honourable T.J. Bernard and his wife, Theodora Foulks. She was raised there and in England before she came to Canada with her mother to live with her brother, Hewitt, a lawyer. It was through him that she met Sir John A. Macdonald for the first time in 1856. It was in 1866, in London, England, where Miss Bernard had been with her mother that she saw her husband to be who was there to prepare the British North America Act. They married on February 16, 1867 and had one daughter, Margaret Mary Theodora Macdonald, who was severely handicapped both mentally and physically (1869–1933). On the first voyage of the transcontinental voyage of the Canadian railroad, Sir John built Susan a platform on the cowcatcher of the train and had a chair nailed to it so she could see the land united by the train. By 1896 she left her home at Earnscliffe to go back to England. She died in England and was buried in the Ocklynge Cemetery in Eastbourne, a town just south of London. Throughout her life she was known as Agnes.
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  • Susan Agnes Macdonald née Bernard was the second wife of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. She was granted the title Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe following her husband's death in 1891. She was born near Spanish Town, Jamaica to The Honourable T.J. Bernard and his wife, Theodora Foulks. She was raised there and in England before she came to Canada with her mother to live with her brother, Hewitt, a lawyer. It was through him that she met Sir John A.
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  • Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe
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