Queen Elizabeth, along with Prince Philip, Princess Anne and Prince Charles, was welcomed to the Canadian Arctic on this date in 1970. Over the following days the distinguished visitors traveled across the Northwest Territories (and what is now Nunavut) before heading to Manitoba as well.Her Majesty was greeted by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau upon her arrival in Iqaluit. “I am particularly pleased, Your Majesty, that you should have agreed to undertake such an unusual and extensive tour of the territories,” Trudeau said. “On your previous visits you have seen a great deal of Canada, far more than most Canadians, but those of us who have traveled in the North or who live here, and that includes most of the people in this room, are convinced that until you have seen the North, you have not really seen Canada.”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.