The wife of Canada’s sixth Prime Minister, Sir Charles Tupper, passed into history on this date in 1912. Frances Morse, who was born and raised in Amherst, Nova Scotia like her husband, was 86. At the time of her death at home in England, she had been married to Sir Charles for 66 years. Due to ill-health, Frances had not been able to visit her native Canada since 1908. Her husband lived on for another three years before he too passed into history, also in England. Both are buried in Nova Scotia.
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.