It is a great personal and professional pleasure to send out birthday greetings from Art’s History to our nation’s first female Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Kim Campbell as she celebrates her birthday today. A proud British Columbian, she entered federal politics in 1988 and was immediately brought into Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s cabinet. She served in the crucial portfolios of Justice and Defence and then succeeded Mulroney, becoming the 19th Prime Minister on June 25, 1993. She has long been a firm supporter of my work in the field of political history and my wife and I remain proud of her becoming one of my Right Honourable tree planters in my famous Kingston Garden in 2015. Happy birthday Kim Campbell!
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.