A more than significant anniversary for us all to celebrate today. It was, of course, on this date in 1993 that the Right Honourable Kim Campbell was sworn-in, making her Canada’s first-ever female Prime Minister.  She had won the Progressive Conservative party leadership two weeks previously. Madam Campbell had been elected to the Commons less than five-years previously so her journey to becoming Prime Minister had been a remarkable one. Leading up to her swearing-in as PM, she had served as Minister of Defence and Justice in the government of Prime Minister Mulroney. Short months later, in October 1993, PM Campbell and her government were defeated by Jean Chrétien’s Liberals and she retired from politics. Still, Kim Campbell had made history and sadly she remains the only woman Prime Minister in our history. Birthday alert: Sending out birthday greetings to commentator Tasha Kheiriddin and Quebec MP/Minister François-Philippe Champagne. caption id="attachment_568858" align="alignleft" width="293" Portrait of The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell/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.