It was on this date in 1929 that the developing political legend that was Winston Churchill arrived in Quebec City to start his second speaking tour of Canada. He had previously visited Canada in his youth, in 1900-1901. Churchill stayed at the famed Chateau Frontenac during the Quebec City portion of his Canadian tour. He was accompanied on the trip by his son, Randolph.  The younger Churchill kept a diary and described in it the observation about newspapers that I suspect many leaders in Canadian politics over the decades would have privately agreed with – perhaps even today. According to Randolph, Churchill looked out from his Chateau Frontenac window one day and made the following private remarks while looking at pulp and paper operations off in the distance. “Fancy cutting down those beautiful trees to make pulp for those bloody newspapers and calling it civilization,” he said. Canadians would not see Churchill in person again until 1941 when he arrived in Ottawa as his nation’s war-time Prime Minister and rallied Canadians and citizens of other Allied nations at the lowest point in the war. caption id="attachment_576546" align="alignleft" width="314" Winston Churchill, 1929/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.