Today presents us another chance to mark the anniversary of the maiden House addresses of one of our 23 Prime Ministers. And today it is Alexander Mackenzie, our second Prime Minister’s turn. An immigrant to British North America from Scotland (like his rival Sir John A. Macdonald), Mackenzie, a stone mason, first settled in Kingston, again like Sir John A.Alexander Mackenzie later moved to Sarnia. He was to become Prime Minister in 1873 when Sir John A. was forced to resign over the Pacific Scandal.  Mackenzie went on to serve five years as Prime Minister.  But that was all in front of him when he rose in the Commons to deliver his first remarks there on November 12, 1867. You can read his address at this link.caption id="attachment_543389" align="alignleft" width="308" Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd prime minister of Canada/captionArthur 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.