Since we marked an anniversary involving history-making Kathleen Wynne yesterday, I thought that today in “Art’s History” we’d stick with Ontario Premiers.  As a result, I think Ontarians and Canadians of all and any party views will join me in sending out special anniversary greetings to William Grenville Davis, Ontario’s Premier from 1971 until 1985.  It was exactly 50 years-ago today that he won the Ontario PC leadership, becoming Premier of Ontario a short time later. All these decades later Mr. Davis is widely considered one of the greatest Premiers ever to have led Canada’s largest province.  Only the great Sir Oliver Mowat served longer in Ontario’s highest political office than Mr. Davis.  He also played a leading role on the national stage putting, for example, country before politics during the patriation of the constitution events of 1981-82. Happy 50^th anniversary Mr. Davis! caption id="attachment_540038" align="alignnone" width="204" Bill Davis 1984/caption Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist.  He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.  A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.