It is a great personal pleasure today to send birthday greetings from Art’s History to one of my favourite people I have had the privilege to get to know through my work in journalism and political history. Geills Turner, the spouse of the late John Napier Turner, Canada's 17th Prime Minister, celebrates her special day today. Over the years, Geills has been a great friend of my wife and I and has supported my work in the field of political history.  I owe her a great deal. Born Geills Kilgour in Winnipeg in 1937, she later graduated from McGill and then the Harvard Business School (the latter in an era when not a lot of women were in that august program).  She met John Turner -- the dashing young Montreal lawyer -- in the early 1960s.  They married soon after. Over the many years her husband was in the public eye, Mrs. Turner was also providing a public service to Canada.  And while acknowledging that, I’d also like to take this moment to pay tribute to all the spouses of our Prime Ministers. Theirs’ is one of the toughest jobs in politics and this is only rarely recognized. Happy birthday Geills Turner!   caption id="attachment_598589" align="alignleft" width="581" Geills Turner/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.