Very pleased today to mark an anniversary important to everyone in old stomping grounds as a reporter in the Northwest Territories.  So, it was on this date in 1967 that Yellowknife was named the NWT’s capital city.  I first experienced Yellowknife on a four-month contract for Northern News Services during the spring-summer of 1995 (where I met, for the first time, an American President, a guy named George Herbert Walker Bush who loved to fish up there -- but that story is for another day.)  A couple of years later, just after we were married, I returned to the NWT with my wife Alison where we lived first in Fort Simpson before I transferred to the paper’s head office in Yellowknife.As a political junkie, I naturally gravitated towards covering politics whenever I could in the North and, to this day, I think the Northwest Territories’ Legislative Assembly is one of the most beautiful of all such buildings in Canada.  I have nothing but fond memories of covering leaders like Jim Antoine and Donny Morin, both Premiers back in my day in that building. Other MLAs I got to know included Steve Kakfwi, a fellow Bob Dylan fan who himself would become the NWT’s Premier after I returned south, and a feisty MLA, Jane Groenewegen, who was always a great source for the politics of the day, and a future MLA, Dave Ramsay.So happy anniversary to all my old friends in Yellowknife as we mark this significant day on the political history calendar.[caption id="attachment_533794" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories[/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.