It was on this date in 1989 that Her Majesty the Queen Mother started her final visit to Canada. She visited Toronto, London and London, traveling through a province she knew well, particularly after the famous 1939 tour of Canada she and her late husband, King George VI, crisscrossed the nation. Her Majesty had a punishing schedule as always but performed her duties to perfection. She passed into history in 2002 at the age of 101, unstoppable to the end.
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.