One of the most famous Nova Scotians of his time, Joseph Howe, passed into history on this date in 1873. A crusading journalist and politician who opposed Confederation, he was serving as his province’s Lt.-Governor at the time of his death. Earlier, and despite of his anti-Confederation views, Howe had entered Sir John A. Macdonald’s cabinet after the wily PM promised better terms for the province in Confederation. Howe was only 68 when he died.
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.