There are politically minded parents in Canada for sure, but it is hard to imagine that anyone topped Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Goodwin back in 1921. On this date that year newspapers across the country were full of coverage of the federal election then raging. An enterprising reporter, however, took time out to write a story that softened even the most partisan hearts out there. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin, who hailed from Amherst, Nova Scotia, became the parents of healthy twin boys that week. With non-partisan spirit that is rarely found these days, the happy mom and died named their boys Arthur Meighen Goodwin and Mackenzie King Goodwin. Art’s History kids you not.
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.