I urge everyone to read these excellent biographies of D’Arcy McGee and Sir John A. Macdonald.

Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police
By David A. Wilson

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 1 Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857
By David A. Wilson

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2 The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868
By David A. Wilson

John A: The Man Who Made Us, Volume 1
By Richard Gwyn

Nation Maker Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, 
Volume 2
By Richard Gwyn

Please read one of the many books on Louis Riel.