The march towards Confederation continued at full-speed on this date in 1867 with the introduction of a bill to establish the Dominion of Canada introduced in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords. With the great Sir John A. Macdonald and other Fathers of Confederation still in Britain finalizing the details which would see the creation of Canada, the British upper house began deliberations on what would become the British North America Act. Six-weeks later, on March 29, Her Majesty Queen Victoria would give Royal Assent and the stage was set for Canada’s birth on July 1, 1867.
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.