Gentleman-Senator Michael Meighen was awarded an honorary degree by his alma mater, Montreal’s storied McGill University, on this date in 2012. Two-years later this distinguished public servant was appointed Chancellor of McGill.
Michael Meighen has been a long-time mentor and supporter of my work, and I owe him a great deal. It is therefore a great pleasure to mark this special anniversary of his on Art’s History.
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.