A Glasgow building historians believe to be the birthplace of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, has been demolished to make way for a new development. Researchers had narrowed the location of Macdonald's birth to a commercial district in the Scottish city where his father, Hugh, was known to have operated a business. - Randy Boswell, Macdonald researcherIn September 2017, they learned the dilapidated, long-vacant 18th-century building on Brunswick Street had been razed. "I was disappointed," Carleton University journalism professor and Macdonald researcher Randy Boswell told CBC Radio's Ontario Morning. The building thought to be Macdonald's birthplace once housed a pub on the ground floor.

Source: CBC News May 07, 2018 16:41 UTC