The military and titan of business who built Toronto’s famed Casa Loma, passed into history on this date in 1928 at 80. Sir Henry Pallett, who was born in Kingston, made his millions by way of shrewd investments in electric power generation and in mining. Pallett was also a respected military leader who rose to the rank of Major-General.
Hundreds of thousands continue to visit Casa Loma today, as they have for generations. I have great memories of traveling from my hometown of Scarborough on a school trip with my fellow students from William Tredway Public School to tour the lavish mansion in my youth.
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.