The Laurier years in Canadian politics began on this date in 1896 with he and his party earning their first of what would be four majority mandate from Canadians. Wilfrid Laurier would serve as Prime Minister all the way through to 1911. He guided Canadians through a remarkable period of confidence, expansion and ever-increasing sovereignty on the world stage. It is for good reason that he, along with Sir John A. Macdonald, are known as the nation’s greatest prime ministers.
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.