America’s 40th President, Ronald Reagan, was in Ottawa on this date in 1987 for talks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The highlight of the visit was Reagan’s speech to Canada’s Parliament. This was Reagan’s second time addressing our Parliament as he had done so the first time in 1981. You can watch his 1987 address at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_THYKIbT-sE
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.