Canada’s future Prime Minister, Mark Carney, was appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada by Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper on this date in 2007. He officially took office in early 2008 and would be the eighth Canadian to hold this crucial post, serving until 2013. Most importantly, Carney held his high office at the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis.
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.