H.R. Milner

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Horatio Ray Milner CC, QC, BA, LL.D (1889 - 24 May 1975) was a lawyer and businessman.

Milner was born in Sackville, New Brunswick. His higher education would be in Halifax, Nova Scotia where graduated he graduated from Dalhousie University, following his 1909 graduation from King's College where he would return as Chancellor from 1957 to 1963.

In 1912, he was a founding partner of the Edmonton, Alberta legal firm Milner and Steer. He would be called to military service in World War I, after which he was appointed King's Counsel (becoming Queen's Counsel upon the 1952 accession of Queen Elizabeth).

Later, he would become associated with various utilities and natural gas companies in that province.

He was married twice, first to Catherine "Rina" Bury (d. 1952), then remarried by 1954 to Veronica Fitzgerald (d. 1998). Milner died in Qualicum, British Columbia aged 86.

Milner kept a property on British Columbia's Vancouver Island which is today maintained as Milner Gardens.[Milner Gardens profile]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1969, the year he retired.[Order of Canada: H.R. Milner]

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