On this in 1967 a special committee of Senators and MPs struck by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson’s government recommended that O Canada be officially named the nation’s national anthem. Despite this recommendation, however, the song didn’t become our official anthem until 1980. You can read a brief history of O Canada from the Canadian Encyclopedia at this link: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/o-canada
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.