<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Arial"><b>“A Visit with Sir John A. Macdonald” Sunday, May 3, 2015 - 2pm to 3pm</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br>2015 is the 150th Anniversary of the construction of <a href="http://rossbayvilla.org/">Ross Bay Villa</a>, and 2015 is the <a href="http://www.sirjohna2015.ca/">200th Anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth</a>! It is a great year to celebrate! This event is part of a year-long celebration of Ross Bay Villa’s 150th Anniversary organized by the Ross Bay Villa Society. The celebrations are part of larger fundraising campaign organized by the society to purchase and finish restoring the historical home that once belonged to Member of Parliament Francis Roscoe.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br><b>HISTORY:</b><br>Francis Roscoe of Ross Bay Villa, was a Member of Parliament for Victoria from 1874 - 1878. During Roscoe’s time as an M.P. in Ottawa, he met with Macdonald and dined with him, though Roscoe was Liberal and Macdonald a Conservative. An ardent supporter of B.C. joining Confederation, Roscoe resigned his seat in August of 1878. This vacancy made way for Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s First Prime Minister, to be elected as a Member of Parliament for Victoria in October of 1878.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">*****<br><b>A TWO-PART EVENT:</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>PART ONE: "A visit with Sir John A. Macdonald" </i>An hour-long, musical-theatrical ticketed presentation in Ross Bay Villa’s garden, under the apple trees, by the <a href="http://www.sirjohna2015.ca/salon-acting-company.html">Salon Acting Company</a> of Kingston, Ontario, as part of their cross-country road trip celebrating our first Prime Minister, in 2015 – on the 200th anniversary of his birth. <i>"This is way history should be taught" former Prime Minister Paul Martin</i></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Ross Bay Villa: Sunday afternoon, May 3, 2015 from 2pm – 3pm</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">1490 Fairfield Road, Victoria</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Tickets $10 each <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1419663">(available in advance via Brown Paper Tickets)</a> or cash at the gate</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>PART TWO: </i>After the presentation, the theatre troupe, carrying historic campaign signs, will gather at City Hall’s Pandora Street entrance, beside the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, with special guests, for a public event. The Salon Theatre Group will present two musical numbers about Sir John A. Macdonald. Chris Considine, Victoria lawyer, will speak. He is the Great-grandson of Sir Joseph Pope, private secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald, who accompanied Sir John on his first trip to Victoria in 1886.<br>City Hall, Pandora Street entrance: Sunday afternoon, May 3, 4pm to 4:45pm</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Free Public Event.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">*****</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Proceeds will be split 50/50 between the Ross Bay Villa Society and the Salon Theatre Company, both Charitable Organizations. The proceeds from this event will assist the Ross Bay Villa Ownership Campaign. For a list of all events planned at Ross Bay Villa for the 150th anniversary, please visit our <a href="http://rossbayvilla.org/events/2014/12/30/150th-anniversary-of-ross-bay-villa-2/">Events Page</a>.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">*****</font></div><div>
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