British Columbians, tired of the NDP government of Glen Clark, gave former Vancouver Mayor Gordon Campbell and his BC Liberals a commanding mandate in the provincial election held on this date in 2001. The party took 77 of the B.C. Legislature’s 79 seats. Premier Campbell would hold the top political job in his province for a decade. Upon his retirement from politics, Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper tapped Campbell to serve as the nation’s High Commissioner to the U.K. and Campbell served in London with uncommon distinction and skill.
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.