Today in Canada’s Political History: December 7, 1978, Ed Schreyer appointed Governor General of Canada

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A former federal MP and NDP Premier of Manitoba, Schreyer would be installed as GG early in the new year and hold his Vice Regal post until 1984. He was known to be very unhappy in the job and was appointed Canada’s High Commissioner to Australia upon leaving Rideau Hall at the relatively youthful age of 48.

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.