Nova Scotia Father of Confederation Adams George Archibald was born on this date in 1814. He was destined to finish his career with one of the greatest resumes of his era. Archibald served as a cabinet minister in Nova Scotia, a probate court judge, Leader of the Opposition in the colonial legislature, an MP and cabinet minister under Sir John A. Macdonald, a delegate to one of the Confederation conferences, and, if that wasn’t enough, he served as Lt.-Governor of both Manitoba and Nova Scotia during his distinguished career.
You can read more about this fascinating Nova Scotian at his entry at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography on-line at this link: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/archibald_adams_george_12E.html
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.