A youthful Joe Clark’s journey through Canadian history and politics took another step forward on this date in 1964. The Canadian Press reported that the future Prime Minister was acclaimed as President of the Progressive Conservative Student Federation. This would be Clark’s second term holding the post. The man from High River, Alberta, never looked back, and would be Prime Minister 15-years-later.
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.