It was a big day for past Prime Minister Louis St.-Laurent, his family, friends and supporters on this date in 1959. The 12th Prime Minister’s official portrait was unveiled at a non-partisan ceremony held on Parliament Hill. Friends and supporters and even St.-Laurent’s former Tory opponent, George Drew, had made personal donations that made the painting possible. It was painted by artist Audrey Watt McNaughton.
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.