One of Canada’s most important Fathers of Confederation, though hardly remembered today, was born on this date in 1824. I speak, of course, of New Brunswick’s Peter Mitchell.History records that Mitchell played a key role in bringing his reluctant province into Confederation. A former Premier of New Brunswick, he went on to serve as a Senator, MP and cabinet minister in Ottawa.Readers can learn more about this Father of Confederation at his biography found at the on-line Canadian Encyclopedia. [caption id="attachment_600499" align="alignleft" width="600"]
Peter Mitchell, Father of Confederation[/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.
Peter Mitchell, Father of Confederation[/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.