Parliamentary legend Allan J. MacEachen delivered his maiden address in the Commons on this date in 1954. He had been elected under Prime Minister Louis St.-Laurent’s banner the year before. Allan J. would later serve with distinction in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. He would also become a candidate for the Liberal Party leadership in 1968, and was the first-ever Canadian Deputy Prime Minister.
It was my very great privilege to get to know Mr. MacEachen over a decade ago when I served as one of the assistants as he prepared his – still unpublished – memoirs.
You can read Allan J.’s first-ever Commons address at the link below.
https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2201_02/1101
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.