- Born: 13 APR 1825 – Carlingford, Louth, Ireland
- Died: 07 APR 1868 – Ottawa, Ontario
- Achievements:
- One of the Fathers of Confederation
- Works:
- Eva MacDonald (1844)
- Historical Sketches of O’Connell and His Friends (1845)
- Gallery of Irish Writers (1846)
- A Memoir of the Life and Conquests of Art MacMurrogh, King of Leinster (1847)
- A History of the Irish Settlers in North America (1851)
- A Popular History of the Irish Settlers in North America (1852)
- A History of the Attempts oto Establish the Protestant Reformation in Ireland (1853)
- The Catholic History of North America (1855)
- A Life of the Rt. Rev. Edward Maginn (1857)
- Canadian Ballads, and Occasional Verses (1858)
- Sebastian (1860)
- A Popular History of Ireland (1863)
- Notes on Federal Governments, Past and present (1865)
- The Poems of Thomas D’Arcy McGee (1869)
- Died: 07 APR 1868 – Ottawa, Ontario