One of Canada’s greatest 20th century Prime Ministers, the Rt. Hon. Louis St.-Laurent, passed into history on this date in 1973. Mackenzie King’s successor, St.-Laurent guided Canada from 1949 to 1957. He earned two convincing majority mandates from Canadians and proved a steady hand as the nation entered the 1950s. Mr. St.-Laurent, Canada’s second French-Canadian Prime Minister, was 91 when he died.
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.