Former Canadian astronaut and Governor General Julie Payette was born on this date in 1963. She was appointed the Queen’s representative to Canada in 2017 but resigned in early 2021 after an investigation into her treatment of staff at Rideau Hall. You can read more about Ms. Payette, who has rarely been heard from since her resignation, at her entry in the on-line version of the Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/julie-payette
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.