“It is but for Sir John A. Macdonald we would all be Americans (today),” argued journalist-historian Richard Gwyn on CBC Radio on this date in 2008. He was a guest of Michael Enright’s on the latter’s Sunday morning show ahead of the release of the first volume of his groundbreaking biography of Canada’s Father of Confederation, Sir John A: The Man Who Made Us. You can listen to the pair’s fascinating discussion at this link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1752473369
Richard Gwyn at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2012 - Dan Harasymchuk
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.