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This article represents the launch of the newest eCanadian newspaper.

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Why Launch this Newspaper?
Why name it after some dude called D’Arcy McGee?
The answer to the first question will be come evident as the answer to the 2nd question is given.
Thomas D’Arcy McGee (or as he sometimes wrote it, M’Gee) was born in Ireland in 1825, and by his mid-teens, he became an Irish patriot advocating for freedom from England, even by the power of the sword.
He was a great orator, powerfully using words to arouse the imagination of his hearers. He fled Ireland for the US (via Quebec) and was soon writing for newspapers, and rose quickly to become editor of several of them, always with the theme of his homeland. Early, he was a supporter of the American annexation of Canada, but this soon passed. He returned home to Ireland, and continued his literary pursuits – newspapers, poety, and books – but his theme was always the same – the Irish. He became caught up in rebellion against the British and again fled to North America, first to the US, but then to Canada, where he made his permanent home, having been invited north by the Irish community in Montreal. Here he continued with his editorial abilities, and used it as a launching pad for his political aims.
He found that Canada provided much more freedom for the Irish expatriates, and soon began to promote a Federal system of government indenpendent of Great Britain. He was first elected in 1857 to the provincial Legislative Assembly, and saw his influence rise in government. He particpated in the 1864 Conferences in Charlottetown and Quebec City, which laid the foundations for creation of the Dominion of Canada 3 years later, on July 1, 1867. This gave him a place in history alongside such names as John A. MacDonald, George-Etienne Cartier and others as one of the Fathers of Confederation.
D’Arcy McGee died less than a year after the birth of Canada, on April 7, 1868, from an assassin’s bullet. McGee’s repudiation of his previous armed insurrections against Britain in favour of a peaceful independence for Ireland, much as Canada had obtained, turned much Irish sentiment against him. It is alleged that his killer had Fenian sympathies, an Irish group which advocated armed overthrow of the British from the Irish isle.
This eNewspaper, the D’Arcy McGee Herald, is to honour D’Arcy McGee as Canada’s only federal political assassination, and to follow his efforts to use the power of the written word to launch my own e-political aspirations, somewhere down the road. The word Herald was deliberately chosen, to persent an image of a bygone era where newspapers hired heralds to stand on the street and scream out the headlines, and thus sell newspapers. This newspaper will endeavor to herald the latest and most important news, and sometimes, the fascinating or humourous stories, but above all, to push for Canadian sovereignty over its own lands, and to make Canada a great nation in the eRepublik.

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