Canada’s fifth Prime Minister, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, was married on this date in 1847 to Harriet Louisa Moore. They had first met in 1842 and the future PM courted his beloved for five years between their wedding. The couple would have nine children. In marking Bowell’s marriage for Art’s History, I am reminded what an important month December was for the pride of Belleville. He became PM on December 21, 1894, was married on December 12, 1847, and, would pass into history—at age 93 – on December 10, 1917.
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.
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.