Canada’s wartime Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, was in England on this date in 1915. He was meeting with his British colleagues and Canadian military officials as World War I continued. He also took time to visit a fellow Nova Scotian who had retired to the U.K.
“On August 14,” Borden wrote in his diary, “I motored to Bexley Heath to visit Sir Charles Tupper. Although in his ninety-fifth year, his mind was wonderfully clear; and he was as keenly interested as ever in the affairs of the Empire. His views were much the same as mine.”
Despite his advanced age, Tupper had just published his memoirs. Sir Charles passed into history on October 30, 1915.
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.