D'Arcy Mcgee was an Irish Nationaliast and an Irish Canadian Journalist. Mcgee was also the Father of Confederation and the only Canadian victim of political assassination at the federal level.He was born on April 18th, 1825 in Carlingford, Ireland. Mcgee was raised as a Roman Catholic. At the age of 17, he emigrated to the United States where he found work as an assistant editor for Patrick Donahoe's Boston Pilot. The Boston Pilot is a Catholic Newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts. After working for The Boston Pilot, he returned home to Ireland where he became very politically active and began editing the nationalist newspape, The Nation. Mcgee later escaped Ireland by steamship and returned back to the United States. Once he setteled into The United States, he began opening Irish-American publications in New York City. In the year 1857 in traveled to Montreal, Quebec in Canada and set up the publication New Era. In 1858, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province Canada.On April 7th, of 1868, Mcgee was participating in a parliamentary debate the continued into the night past midnight. Walking to the doorsteps of his apartment at Sparks Street, D'Arcy Mcgee was assassinated my a pistol. Patrick J. Whelan was the man behind the gun. Decades later his guilt was questioned and many started to believe he was a scapegoat.A monument stands in his home town of Carlingford, Ireland. At the location of the shooting on Sparks Street, the Thomas D'Arcy Mcgee Building is a prominent government-owned office building.
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