Canada’s 10th Governor General, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, was born at Buckingham Palace on this date in 1911. The third son of Queen Victoria, he was to spend the better part of 40 years in the British military. In 1910, he was appointed our nation’s 10th Governor General and would serve at Rideau Hall until 1916. He is noteworthy because he was the first member of the Royal Family to represent the Monarch in Canada. Prince Arthur lived into his 90s and passed into history in 1942.
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.