Art's History

Arthur Milnes, an accomplished public historian, award-winning journalist and the in-house historian at the Frontenac Club Hotel, explores milestone moments in Canada’s political history, occasionally drawing upon his own interactions with some of the notable figures as he offers insightful glimpses and anecdotes that remind us that Canada, too, has a rich and colourful political history.
 

Today in Canada's Political History: April 20, 1968, Happy birthday Evan Solomon!
Today in Canada's Political History: April 19, 1967, Joe Clark nominated as an Alberta provincial PC candidate
Today in Canada's Political History: April 18, 1984: Brian Dickson Becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Today in Canada's Political History: April 17, 1997, Bob Rae delivers the inaugural Allan J. MacEachen Lecture at St. FX
Today in Canada's Political History: April 16, 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin channels Sir Wilfrid Laurier in a Toronto speech
Today in Canada's Political History: April 15, 1865, Charles Tupper pays tribute to the late Abraham Lincoln
Today in Canada's Political History: April 14, 1874, Sir Richard Cartwright delivers the first Liberal budget address in Canadian history
Today in Canada's Political History: April 13, 1956, Birth of Indigenous leader Matthew Coon Come
Today in Canada's Political History: April 12, 1945, Death of Franklin Roosevelt
Today in Canada's Political History: April 11, 2020, PM Justin Trudeau invokes his grandfather as he addresses the Commons about the world-wide pandemic crisis
Today in Canada's Political History: April 10, 2016, Tom Mulcair ousted as NDP leader
Today in Canada's Political History: April 9, 1913, Sir Charles Tupper bids a final farewell to Vancouver
Today in Canada's Political History: April 8, 1983, Joe Clark speaks in Pembroke during leadership campaign
Today in Canada's Political History: April 7, 1935, Death of FDR’s Envoy to Canada, William Delano Robbins
Today in Canada's Political History: April 6, 1987, President Ronald Reagan addresses Canada’s Parliament
Today in Canada's Political History: April 5, 2013, Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper eulogizes former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein
Today in Canada's Political History:  April 4, 1967, One of the most iconic pictures in Canadian political history taken at Rideau Hall
Today in Canada's Political History: April 3, 1895, The Montreal Star describes the horticultural sides of Sir John A., Alexander Mackenzie and Sir John Abbott!
Today in Canada's Political History: April 2, 1957, Happy birthday Chief Justice Wagner!
Today in Canada's Political History: April 1, 1937, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir addresses the U.S. House of Representatives
Today in Canada's Political History: March 31, 2006, Only 55 percent of Alberta PCs support Ralph Klein’s continued leadership
Today in Canada's Political History: March 30, 1983, Joe Clark grilled by Jack Webster on BCTV
Today in Canada's Political History: March 29, 1960, Prime Minister Dief (literally) delivers past Prime Ministers from the darkness!
Today in Canada's Political History: March 28, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper pays tribute to the Inuit of northern Quebec
Today in Canada's Political History: March 27, 1914, Sir Charles Tupper’s memoirs are published
Today in Canada's Political History: March 26, 1940, Canada’s Liberals earn a majority mandate from Canadians
Today in Canada's Political History: March 25, 2011, Stephen Harper’s and his Conservatives get a step closer to majority status!
Today in Canada's Political History: March 24, 1960, Future PM Joe Clark writes a letter-to-the editor about the lack of student housing at the University of Alberta
Today in Canada's Political History: March 23, 2013, Prime Minister Stephen Harper plants a ceremonial tree in Art’s famous garden!
Today in Canada's Political History: March 22, 1983, Future Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appears on Webster