January 6, 1919.  Yesterday we together marked the solemn day that President Calvin Coolidge died.  Today, we continue in the theme and mark the fact that it was on this date in 1919 that the great Teddy Roosevelt died.I will leave it to others to comment on this remarkable man’s Presidential legacy.  For me, however, I will always celebrate a certain hunting trip in Canada he took during the First World War.  A game hunter if there ever was one, Teddy nearly bought the farm right here in Canada.And to fully understand the story you have to recall that he ran for President in 1912 heading what became known as the Bull Moose party.With this in mind I have always found it more than cool to note that while hunting in Quebec's northern wilderness in 1915 Teddy was attacked by none other than a – wait for it! – bull moose.After one helluva fight Roosevelt managed to shoot and kill the valiant bull moose.  A big game hunter who had hunted around the world, his Canadian bull moose was remembered by Roosevelt as the greatest and most honourable – and largest – beast he’d ever encountered.And today? You will find the antlers on display at the Roosevelt national historic site on Long Island.  Teddy brought them home with him after leaving Quebec.In one of Teddy’s books, he wrote a lengthy section describing his battle with the Canadian moose for his 1916 volume, A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open.You can read it here.[caption id="attachment_531566" align="alignnone" width="500"] Theodore Roosevelt (Lehigh County Historical Society)[/caption]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.