Birth Name: Stephen Joseph Harper
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario
Date of Birth: April 30, 1959
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Type/Color: Blond (or gray)
Ethnicity: English, Scottish
Family info: Stephen Harper is a Canadian politician. He has served as Prime Minister of Canada since 2006.
Prime Minister Harper has English and Scottish ancestry. Some of his ancestral lines are American, and date back to New England in the 1600s. His mother’s ancestry is more heavily Scottish than his father’s, and Prime Minister Harper’s matrilineal line traces back to Scotland (specifically to Catherine Derby, born c. 1834, in Scotland).
Prime Minister Harper’s paternal grandparents were Harris Chapman Harper (the son of Joseph Crandal Harper and Agatha Blanch Chapman) and Lena Faye Coy (the daughter of George William Coy , Jr. and Josephine Rebecca Jones).
Prime Minister Harper’s maternal grandparents were Rupert Fullerton Johnston (the son of Robert Johnston and Margaret “Maggie” Henderson) and Catherine Jane Herd (the daughter of Alexander Herd and Margaret Geddes).
Source: Genealogy of Prime Minister Harper’s father, Joseph Harris Harper – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=huppe1&id=I294877
Notes on Prime Minister Harper’s genealogy (focusing on his father’s side) – http://heritage.tantramar.com/WFNewsletter_45.html
More notes on Prime Minister Harper’s genealogy (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://boards.ancestry.ca/localities.northam.canada.ontario.durham/2396.1.2.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx
Genealogy of Prime Minister Harper’s matrilineal great-grandmother, Margaret Geddes (focusing on her own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jmckane&id=I244775
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