Editing John Abbott (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Sherbrooke at Stanley Street, Montreal.jpg|thumb|Sir John Abbott's house on [[Sherbrooke Street]], [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]]]
[[John Abbott College]] in [[Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec|Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue]], [[Quebec]], near Abbott's {{convert|300|acre|km2|adj=on}} country estate (Boisbriant), is named after him.

He was named a [[Persons of National Historic Significance|Person of National Historic Significance]] by the [[Government of Canada]] in 1938.<ref>{{DFHD|1624|Abbott, Sir John Joseph Caldwell National Historic Person|access-date=September 21, 2015}}</ref>

His "most memorable" political comment is "I hate politics."<ref name="Duffy">{{cite news |first=John |last=Duffy |title=Selling Laurier: Sir Wilfrid's appeal: 'A Frenchman you can trust' |work=[[National Post]] |date=August 17, 2002 |page=B.1}}</ref> The full quote was "I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics—except doing public work to the best of my ability."<ref>{{cite book |first=Gordon  |last=Donaldson |author-link=Gordon Donaldson (journalist) |title=The Prime Ministers of Canada |publisher=Doubleday Canada |date=1997 |page=49}}</ref>

In their 1999 look at the [[List of prime ministers of Canada|Canadian prime ministers]] through [[Jean Chrétien]], [[J.L. Granatstein]] and [[Norman Hillmer]] included a survey of Canadian historians ranking the prime ministers. Abbott's term of service was considered below par and was ranked #17 out of 20 (up to then).<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hillmer |first1=Norman |last2=Granatstein |first2=J.L. |title=Historians Rank the Best and Worst Canadian Prime Ministers |date=April 21, 1997 |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1997/4/21/historians-rank-the-best-and-worst-canadian-prime-ministers |magazine=Maclean's |access-date=September 11, 2019 |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802173133/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1997/4/21/historians-rank-the-best-and-worst-canadian-prime-ministers |url-status=dead }}</ref> When the survey was repeated in 2016, Abbott was ranked 7th out of ten "short-term" prime ministers with a score of 1.8 out of 5.<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Stephen |last1=Azzi |first2=Norman |last2=Hillmer |title=Ranking Canada's best and worst prime ministers
 |date=October 7, 2016 |magazine=Maclean's |url=https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/ranking-canadas-best-and-worst-prime-ministers/}}</ref>