A Quebec giant from the world of politics passed into history on this date in 1929. Sir Jean-Lomer Gouin, his province’s Premier from 1905 to 1920, also served as Lt.-Governor of Quebec and was federal Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mackenzie King during his distinguished career.
You can learn more about this remarkable Canadian at his entry at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at this link.
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.