The most famous constitutional crisis in Canadian political history officially came to a close on this date in 1926 after voters returned Mackenzie King and his Liberals to power after they briefly had had to turn over the keys of power to Arthur Meighen and his Tories. The wonderful folks at Historica, via their Canadian Encyclopedia on-line edition, have an article, written by the great constitutional scholar that was Eugene Forsey (and then updated years later) at the following link that will give readers of Art’s History more background about what led to the election results 100 years-ago today: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/king-byng-affair
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.