One of the great things about preparing daily posts for Art’s History is the fascinating tidbits of Canadian political history you stumble on performing research.  And this is what happened to me recently when searching for an item to mark February 14. Until I found the wonderful website, Today in Ottawa’s History, I had never heard of the night in 1915 the citizens of Ottawa – from Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier on down – feared German planes were on their way to bomb Canada’s capital.  And if that wasn’t exciting enough, I learned that UFO watchers, years after the incident, argued that space vehicles from the heavens were the true culprits, not the German air force. And some still believe Canadian history is boring. My friend James Powell, the man behind Today in Ottawa’s History, generously gave me permission to tell this fascinating story to National Newswatch readers.  As James is the person who did the research, I will turn it over to him. You can find his fascinating account here. caption id="attachment_540079" align="alignnone" width="640" Fokker Eindecker circa 1915 (WikiCommons)/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.