It was a big day for Angus Lewis Macdonald -- popularly known as Angus L. -- the legendary Nova Scotian, on September 8, 1945.  Macdonald -- a lawyer born in Inverness County, Cape Breton -- had first served as Premier of his province for seven years, beginning in 1933.  During that period he was credited with policies and programs that put the jobless to work on worthwhile projects that helped transform the province, through investments aimed at improving the road system, building bridges and expanding the electrical grid. However, in 1940, upon the death of Minister of National Defence Norman M. Rogers in a plane crash, Prime Minister Mackenzie King convinced Angus to leave the Premiership and enter King’s cabinet as the wartime cabinet minister in charge of the Royal Canadian Navy.  As it turned out, Angus Macdonald found no joy in Ottawa and he and Prime Minister King grew to hate one another. caption id="attachment_715003" align="alignleft" width="220" Angus L. Macdonald and Princess Elizabeth, 1951/caption So, in 1945 he left federal politics, took up the leadership of the provincial Liberals once again, and resumed his Premiership, being sworn-in again as Premier on September 8, 1945.  Still popular, he went on to win three consecutive elections, winning majorities each time.  Angus L. Macdonald would remain in high office until his death, while still serving as Premier of Nova Scotian, in 1954. 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.