Lester B. Pearson’s rise through the civil service continued on this date in 1935 with the announcement of his appointment to Canada’s High Commission in the United Kingdom. “(Pearson) is a young Canadian who has worked hard and achieved much,” the Windsor Star reported. “Mr. Pearson has acquired a wealth of experience to benefit him for the post he will shortly occupy.”
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.