Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau celebrates his 53rd birthday today. Born while his parents, Pierre and Margaret, lived over at 24 Sussex Drive, Justin was the first of three children born to the couple. One of the first to call Pierre with congratulations was none other than U.S. President Richard Nixon. And only a few months later, the President delivered a toast during a state visit to Ottawa. He had those at his table drink to the future Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau! It was quite a prophecy. Happy birthday Prime Minister from Art’s History.
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.