Canada’s new King and Head of the Commonwealth, Charles III, was celebrated at his Coronation ceremony in London on this date in 2023. Then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led Canada’s delegation and he was joined by four of his predecessors, with Kim Campbell, Jean Chrétien, Stephen Harper and Paul Martin, also making the trip across the pond. The non-partisan nature of the gathering of Prime Ministers was further cemented when Mr. Harper officially received his Order of Canada with his colleague Prime Ministers attending his investiture ceremony while in London.
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.