Senator Lorna Milne retired on December 13, 2009.

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Appointed to the Senate by the Rt. Honourable Jean Chrétien, Senator Lorna Milne represents the province of Ontario and the Senatorial Division of Peel County. She has served in the Senate of Canada since September 22, 1995.

She is currently a Member of the following Senate Committees: Energy, Environment and Natural Resources as well as Legal and Constitutional Affairs, for which she also serves as Deputy-Chair. She has been involved with Parliamentary groups including the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, and the Canada-Turkey Friendship Group. Areas of interest include politics, genealogy, and literature. Senator Milne is also an antiques aficionado, and a specialist and lecturer on the subject of Canadian patterns of pressed glass.

Senator Milne’s career includes serving as an educator, businesswoman, community activist, genealogist, and political organizer. Outside of the Senate, most recently she has been a self-employed author, lecturer, and genealogist (1989-95). In 1988-89 she served as a Board Member for the Ontario Automobile Insurance Board, and she was a Residential Coordinator for the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario in Metro Toronto (1988). She was the Owner of Flowertown Antiques in Brampton, Ontario for many years, from 1972 to 1989, and a Census Commissioner with Statistics Canada in both 1971 and 1981. Her early career includes serving as a Lecturer with the Physics Department at the University of Guelph (1956-57).

Active in community politics and education, Senator Milne’s career includes serving as President of the Brampton-Georgetown Federal Liberal Association (1986-87); as Vice-Chairman of the Peel County Board of Education (1969); as a Trustee with the Peel County Board of Education (1968-72), and as a Trustee with the Brampton Public School Board (1964-68).

Her additional involvements in the community have been many. They include serving: as Director of the Peel Country Heritage Complex from 1983 to 1989; on the Senate of the University of Guelph (1981-85); as President of the North Peel Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society, 1980-84; and, as Director of the Brampton and District Association for the Mentally Retarded from 1964 to 1966. Her efforts also include serving as the Founding President of the Brampton & District University Women’s Club (1961-62).

Educated at the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Senator Milne was born in Toronto on December 13, 1934.

She and her husband Ross have three children.

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