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Today in Canada's Political History: October 28, 2008, Rick Mercer visits a rural Quebec sheep farmer

  • Arthur Milnes

  • National Newswatch

  • October 28, 2026

Arthur Milnes, creator of Art's History on National Newswatch, is an accomplished public historian, award-winning journalist, and in-house historian at the Frontenac Club Hotel who brings Canada's political history to life through engaging stories, historical insights, and personal anecdotes drawn from his encounters with many of the country's leading figures.

Canada’s favourite comedian and author Rick Mercer was in Brome Lake, Quebec on this date in 2008 where he visited the nation’s only Right Honourable sheep farmer. Paul Martin, our 21st PM, took time out to give Mercer a tour of the Martin farm. You can watch the pair in action at this link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1B6SYwaPSQ
 

 

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.