History was made on this date in 1952 with the installation of the first-ever Canadian-born Governor General, Vincent Massey. From one of Canada’s most storied families, this former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom would hold his vice-regal post until 1959. Massey’s tenure at Rideau Hall is widely considered one of the most significant in modern Canadian 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.