The seventh Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada was born on this date in New Brunswick in 1869. Francis A. Anglin, who was named to the Supreme Court by Wilfrid Laurier, and later made Chief Justice by Mackenzie King, also served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1874 until 1878. All told he would spend almost a quarter-century as a member of Canada’s highest court. Anglin passed into history in 1933, only two days after he had retired from the Supreme Court.
You can read more about this distinguished Canadian’s life and career at his entry at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at this link: https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/anglin_francis_alexander_16E.html
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.