Art's History

Arthur Milnes, an accomplished public historian, award-winning journalist and the in-house historian at the Frontenac Club Hotel, explores milestone moments in Canada’s political history, occasionally drawing upon his own interactions with some of the notables figures as he offers insightful glimpses and anecdotes that remind us that Canada, too, has a rich and colourful political history.

Today in Canada's Political History - December 23, 1937, December 23, 1960: Happy birthday Geills Turner; Happy birthday Andrew Coyne
Today in Canada's Political History - December 22, 1967: Time Magazine reports on Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson’s resignation announcement
Today in Canada's Political History - December 21, 1894: Sir Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister; Our American neighbours take notice of the new kid on the Canadian block
Today in Canada's Political History - December 20, 1984: PM Mulroney meets with South Africa’s Bishop Desmond Tutu
Today in Canada's Political History - December 19, 1988, Paul Martin Jr.’s maiden speech in the Commons
Today in Canada's Political History - December 18, 1944: Lester Pearson announced as Canada’s new Ambassador to the United States
Today in Canada's Political History - December 17, 2024: Happy 150th birthday William Lyon Mackenzie King!
Today in Canada's Political History - December 16, 1944: Prime Minister Mackenzie King made an Honorary Life Member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery
Today in Canada's Political History - December 15, 1983: Pierre Trudeau brings his Peace Initiative to Washington
Today in Canada's Political History - December 14, 1967, Happy birthday Dominic LeBlanc!
Today in Canada's Political History - December 13, 1894: Governor General Lord Aberdeen invites Mackenzie Bowell to be Prime Minister
Today in Canada's Political History - December 12, 1894: Death of Sir John Thompson
Today in Canada's Political History - December 11, 1993: Happy anniversary Stephen and Laureen Harper!
Today in Canada's Political History - December 10, 1917: Death of Sir Mackenzie Bowell
Today in Canada's Political History - December 9, 1909: Mackenzie King’s maiden address in the Commons
Today in Canada's Political History - December 8, 2016: PM Justin Trudeau praises VP Joe Biden in Ottawa
Today in Canada's Political History - December 7, 2011: Mr. Harper goes to Washington
Today in Canada's Political History - December 6, 1933: Sir Robert Borden writes down his private thoughts about the late General Sir Arthur Currie
Today in Canada's Political History - December 5, 1892: The Man from Halifax becomes Prime Minister
Today in Canada's Political History - December 5, 1967: Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau defends his reforms to divorce laws in a major House of Commons address
Today in Canada's Political History - December 4, 1917: Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s final campaign nears the end
Today in Canada's Political History - December 3, 1915: The Speaker of the House of Commons moves down the hallway to the Senate
Today in Canada's Political History - December 2, 1989: Audrey McLaughlin elected NDP leader
Today in Canada's Political History - December 1, 2004: President George W. Bush channels Mackenzie King
Today in Canada's Political History - November 30, 1976: Diefenbaker kept busy at a Toronto book-signing
Today in Canada's Political History - November 29, 1818: Happy birthday George Brown!
Today in Canada's Political History - November 28, 2007: Prime Minister Stephen Harper commemorates the 75th anniversary of the infamous Ukrainian famine
Today in Canada's Political History - November 27, 2000: Jean Chrétien scores a political hat trick
Today in Canada's Political History - November 26, 1988: President Ronald Reagan discusses the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement during his weekly radio address
Today in Canada's Political History - November 25, 1963: PM Lester Pearson meets the new President, Lyndon Johnson, on the margins of JFK’s funeral in Washington