The best-known premiership has arguably been the Macdonald–Cartier ministry, which governed the Province of Canada from 1857 to 1862 (except for four days in 1858 when power was briefly ceded to the Brown–Dorion government). It was during their ministry that the first organized moves toward Canadian Confederation took place, and John A. Macdonald himself became the first Prime Minister of Canada in 1867. Macdonald-Cartier has survived in Canada as a geographic and institutional name, which has been applied to high schools in Ottawa, Sudbury and Saint-Hubert, the Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport and the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge linking Ottawa with Gatineau. "Macdonald–Cartier Freeway" was also the historical name of Highway 401.