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TIL John A. Macdonald, from Upper Canada, and George-Etienne Cartier, from Lower-Canada, served as co-prime ministers of the Province of Canada. The Ottawa MacDonald Cartier International Airport features statues of the founders at a bench near the luggage pickup

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