It was on this date in 1984 that one of the most significant jurists in Canadian history became Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court. Brian Dickson, who went to serve six years as Chief Justice of Canada, had been first summoned to the Supreme Court in 1973. It fell to him and his fellow Justices to interpret many of the first cases to arrive before them in the era when the Charter of Rights and Freedoms went into effect.Chief Justice Dickson retired in 1990 and passed into history eight years later.[caption id="attachment_552980" align="aligncenter" width="440"]
Portrait of Chief Justice Brian Dickson[/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.
Portrait of Chief Justice Brian Dickson[/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.