Canada’s 12th Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Louis St.-Laurent, passed into history on this date in 1973. One of the leading lawyers of his day, St.-Laurent first came to Ottawa at the request of PM Mackenzie King who needed a Quebec lieutenant after the death of Ernest Lapointe. In 1948 he succeeded King as Liberal leader and PM and served in Canada’s highest political office until 1957. He was 91 when he died.
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.