The spouse of Canada’s First World War leader, Sir Robert Borden, passed into history on this date in 1940. Laura (Lady) Borden, was 78. A native of Halifax, she had married the future Prime Minister in 1889. Robert had predeceased her, dying in 1937. They are buried next to each other in Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery.
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.