The great Louis St. Laurent, Mackenzie King’s worthy successor in Canada’s top political post, became Prime Minister on this date in 1948. He had been elected Liberal leader the previous summer. St.-Laurent would go on to serve the next nine years as PM and earn two majority mandates from Canadians.
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.