Few can argue that Governor General David Johnston’s appointment, on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper, of Elizabeth Dowdeswell as Ontario’s 29th Lieutenant Governor, wasn't an inspired one. A veteran public servant at the provincial, federal and international levels (she served with distinction in Africa with the UN), Her Honour took office as the Queen’s representative to Ontario on this date in 2014.
Eight years later she continues in the role and has earned the respect of partisans of all stripes at Queen’s Park and, more importantly, of all Ontarians. On average, over the last eight years, she has performed upwards of 700 public engagements annually.
She has also, I should add, been a constant supporter of my work in the field of political history, and one to whom I owe a great deal.
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The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell and Art Milnes/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.
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.