The 58th Grey Cup game was held on this date in 1970 with the Montreal Alouettes besting the Calgary Stampeders to take home the most coveted trophy in Canadian football. The game was held at Toronto’s CNE stadium and in the audience was none other than Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The PM performed the ceremonial kick-off and you can watch his football debut at this link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.5357682
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.