The great Angus L. Macdonald, one of the most significant Premiers in Nova Scotia’s history, was sworn-in as Premier for a second time on this date in 1945. Five-years earlier he had accepted Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s invitation to join his wartime cabinet. Macdonald then became the minister of the Crown responsible for the Royal Canadian Navy for the rest of the Second World War. He returned to his beloved home province at the war’s conclusion and would go on to win three elections in a row. Angus L. passed into history in 1954 while still serving as Premier.
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.