Canada’s eighth Prime Minister, Robert L. Borden, received a very important honour from His Majesty King George V on this date in 1914. He was knighted after His Majesty’s decision to award him the Order of St. Michael and St. George. From this day forward our soon-to-be wartime leader would be known before history as Sir Robert Borden. He was the last Canadian Prime Minister to receive a Knighthood.
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.