A future Canadian Prime Minister walked across a stage at Harvard University on this date in 1909. Mackenzie King, destined to become the 10th Canadian to hold the nation’s most important political post 12-years later, was at the famed American university to be awarded his doctorate. King also delivered the commencement address that day.
It is interesting to note that today’s Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Mark Carney, also earned a Harvard degree. Carney would later receive a doctorate from Oxford.
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.