Sometimes even fraudsters try to demonstrate a sense of humour. That was the case on this date in 1968 when a scammer faked the Prime Minister of Canada’s signature. I’ll let the Canadian Press describe (briefly) what happened via the article they sent out on the wires from Vancouver.
“If you're going to tell a lie, you might as well tell a whopper,” the news service reported. “Vancouver police are looking for a man who purchased a ring and a jacket at a downtown department store with a phoney cheque. His signature: Pierre Trudeau.”
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.