Inuk legend Willie Adams, who made history when he was summoned to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1977, was born on this date in 1934. He is turning 91. Adams, the first Inuit to ever been appointed to Canada’s upper house, would serve more than 30 years in the Red Chamber, stepping down in 2008 when he turned 75, the retirement age for Senators. It is a great pleasure to send out birthday greetings to this Officer of the Order of Canada from Art’s History today.
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.