Canada’s Tories had a lot to be happy about on this date in 1957 with John Diefenbaker’s swearing-in as the nation’s 13th Prime Minister. This marked the first time Canada would have a Progressive Conservative PM and government since the days of R.B. Bennett in the 1930s. Dief and his team had defeated Louis St.-Laurent’s Liberals to take power and would remain in office until 1963.
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.