Today in Canada’s Political History: LBJ and Pearson hold talks at Harrington Lake

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson made a whirlwind visit to Expo and the Prime Minister of Canada’s country estate on this date in 1967. At Harrington Lake Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, accompanied by his Secretary of State for External Affairs Paul Martin Sr., participated in a lengthy foreign policy discussion with LBJ. You can read an American report of the conversation at the link below.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d60Arthur 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.