Canada’s 4th Prime Minister, Sir John Thompson, died on this date in 1894. He was only 49 years-old and died at Windsor Castle shortly after being sworn-in as a member of the Imperial Privy Council by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Thompson’s body was brought back to Canada on a British warship and he is buried in Halifax.
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.