Former British Columbia Premier Christy Clark is celebrating her birthday today. Before in Burnaby, she went on to become only the second female Premier of her own province, serving in that high office from 2011 to 2017. She has been a great supporter of my work in the field of political history, even taking time out while Premier to pen an essay for my book - Canada Always - that collected the speeches of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. It is therefore a great personal and professional pleasure to send out birthday greetings from Art’s History to Ms. Clark.
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.