Today is the 100th anniversary of the federal general election that would lead to the famous King-Byng constitutional crisis. This was precipitated because Prime Minister Mackenzie King had won fewer seats than his Tory rival Arthur Meighen in the election that concluded on October 29, 1925. Instead of resigning, King chose to meet the House and the rest, as they say, is history. We’ll have more on Art’s History about the King-Byng crisis in the months ahead.
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.