The great Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberals earned their fourth (!) majority mandate from Canadians on this date in 1908. The first French-Canadian Prime Minister, Laurier had held power since 1896. No PM since Sir Wilfrid has won a fourth majority mandate.
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.