For what would prove the final time in his remarkable career, Canadians once again elected Kingston’s Sir John A. Macdonald as their Prime Minister on this date in 1891. This marked the sixth time, out of seven elections since 1867, that Sir John A. had led his Tories to victory. Sadly, Macdonald would pass into history only three months after this historic victory.
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.