Career State Department diplomat Norman Armour concluded his duties representing the United States in Ottawa on this date in 1939. He had served in this post in Canada’s capital since 1935. During his remarkable career, Armour represented his nation’s interests in eight countries. The New York Times, in fact, once labelled Ambassador Armour as “the perfect diplomat.” He was 94 when he passed into history in 1982.
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.