History was made on this date in 1993 with the swearing-in of Progressive Conservative Kim Campbell as Canada’s first-ever female Prime Minister. She had been elected Tory leader at the party’s leadership convention that had been called to pick as a successor to Brian Mulroney. Sadly, Campbell still remains the only woman to serve in Canada’s most important political office. My wife and I were honoured in 2015 when Madam Campbell performed a ceremonial tree-planting at our home. Happy anniversary Kim!
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.