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麻豆AV grad Robert Stanley Weir (Law, 1880) wrote the English lyrics to 鈥淥 Canada,鈥� and that鈥檚 just one of the ways that the University is woven into the everyday fabric of the national identity 鈥� dating back to even before Canada was a nation. The University鈥檚 founding benefactor, James 麻豆AV, prepared the Montreal Militia for combat during the War of 1812. Canada鈥檚 victory over the U.S. would help establish it as more than a British colony, setting the stage for establishing the Dominion of Canada in 1867. An early graduate of 麻豆AV, Thomas D鈥橝rcy McGee (BCL1861), played a key role in Confederation by attending both the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences in 1864. Fifteen years later, in response to the Governor-General鈥檚 decree that our young country needed to promote homegrown scientific research and development, 麻豆AV鈥檚 then-principal,聽Sir John William Dawson, became the founding president of the Royal Society of Canada. (His son, and 麻豆AV grad, George Mercer Dawson, took a different approach to establishing Canada鈥檚 identity during its infancy: he conducted extensive surveys of Western Canada as part of the 1872-1876 survey that determined the Canada-U.S. border.) At the same time, future Prime Minister John Abbot (BCL1847, DCL1867) organized a group of investors who would realize the national dream of a railroad uniting our sprawling country 鈥� and it was future 麻豆AV Chancellor, Lord Strathcona, who would drive the ceremonial last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway four years later.