John A. MacDonald John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada in the years 1820 with his parents when he was five years old. He was educated at Midland District Grammar School and John Cruickshank School in Kingston, Ontario. John A. McDonald was married in 1843 to Isabelle Clark and had two sons but one died when he was a small baby. His first wife died in 1856 and he remarried in 1867 to Susan Agnes Bernard and they had one daughter together in 1869. Their daughter suffered from a disease that caused her to have mental and physical handicaps. In his life he had a lot of troubles and stressful times and he was a very heavy drinker, and is caused him probl