It is a great personal and professional pleasure to send birthday greetings out from Art’s History to a fellow Kingstonian, Peter Milliken. Peter was born on this date in 1946. He served as Kingston’s MP from 1988 until 2011 and remains the longest-serving MP for the riding.
More importantly, Peter was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in 2001 and was continuously re-elected by MPs of all party stripes to serve as their Speaker for the next ten years. A man of grace, class and born for friendship, I know all readers of Art’s History will join me in wishing Speaker Milliken a happy birthday.caption id="attachment_1452481" align="alignleft" width="315"
Portrait of the Hon. Peter Milliken/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.