It is a big day on Art’s History as we are celebrating both a Prime Minister’s birthday and a Governor General’s birthday at the same time. Georges Vanier, the nation’s GG 1959 to 1967, was born in 1888, while future PM, Lester Pearson, entered the world on the same date in 1897. So happy Vanier-Pearson Day all!
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.