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Sir John A. Macdonald’s Chair

A colour photograph of a wooden slat-backed, painted chair with a woven seat which is so worn it is almost unattached to the frame of the seat on one side. The round-knob handles of the chair, and the armrests themselves, are so worn that all the paint has come off that part. The chair has been placed in front of a wooden pew behind which there are rows of pews. The wide floorboards of the church floor are unpainted and dry.

Photographed by Karen Molson, 2017.

Sir John A. Macdonald’s chair, preserved at St. Bartholmew’s Church in Rivière-du-Loup. Sir John A. used to sit in this chair next to his daughter’s wheelchair at the front of the church, during summer services.