Canada's Mounties made history on this date in 1989 with 100 of their officers deployed to Namibia for a UN peace-keeping mission in the African nation. This was the first time the RCMP had joined a UN force. Once on the ground, the Mounties monitored police and also helped ensure fair elections were held in the African country. Since then, more than 4000 Canadian police officers have joined overseas missions.
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.