Veteran B.C. MLA Frank Calder made history on this date in 1972 with his summons to the province’s cabinet by Premier Dave Barrett.  The province’s first Indigenous cabinet minister, Calder served an impressive 30 years in the B.C. Legislature, initially as an NDP MLA in 1949 from 1949-56 and then again from 1960-75.  After he crossed the floor in 1975, he served as a Social Credit MLA until 1979. His influence in the indigenous community spanned many decades.  In 1944 he was the leader of the North American Indian Brotherhood.  He was a founder, in 1955, of the Nisga’a Tribal Council and served as its president until 1973.  He became known for his opposition to the reserve system, comparing it to a form of apartheid, a view which put him offside with many indigenous leaders of the time.  Along with famed jurist and Indigenous rights advocate Thomas Berger, Calder made history in 1973 when the case he had first brought forward in 1967, Calder v British Columbia, recognized for the first time in Canadian legal history that Indigenous land title had existed prior to European arrival.   The remarkable Frank Calder passed into history in 2006 but not before he had been awarded an Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.   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.