Saskatchewan’s Tories ended more than a decade of NDP rule in their province with their general election victory on this date in 1982. When the polls closed and votes counted, Tory leader Grant Devine had led his party to a commanding majority victory, reducing the once-mighty NDP under Alan Blakney to only nine of the 66 seats in the Saskatchewan Legislature. Premier Devine would remain in office as Premier until 1991.
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.