Future Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was born in isolated Baie Comeau, Quebec on this date in 1939. He would go on to become Canada’s 18th Prime Minister, holding Canada’s highest political office between September 1984 and June 1993. Upon his death two-years ago his was remembered by friend and foe alike for his transformational premiership that include an impressive suite of policies that have stood the test of time. It was my very great privilege to join him during his political retirement to serve as his Memoirs’ assistant for five years, a ride through history the likes of which I could never have imagined in my younger days.
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.