The Father of Confederation’s triumphant march through history continued on this date in 1882. Once again Sir John A. Macdonald of Kingston earned another majority mandate from Canadian voters. Sir John bested Edward Blake and his Liberals in both the number of seats won and also far outpaced the Grits in the popular vote. Macdonald would go on to win two further elections before his death, while still in office as Prime Minister, in 1891.
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.