Horatio Ray Milner, CC QC (27 March 1889 – 24 May 1975)[1] was a Canadian lawyer and businessman.

His law practice, which ended as Fraser Milner Casgrain, was one of the group that merged in 2013 to form Dentons, the world's fifth largest firm.

On the night of 31 March/1 April, the 26th relieved the 3rd Guards Brigade in the front line trenches near Neuville-Vitasse.

At the end of May he was transferred to the Canadian Convalescent Officers' Hospital in Matlock Bath where he had his left thumb amputated while his right leg continued to heal.

Following Armistice, on 3 January 1919 he was admitted to 12th Canadian General Hospital in Bramshott with Hemoptysis, but was discharged three days later.

In the 1949 federal election Milner ran for the Conservatives in the Edmonton West riding, but lost to Liberal George Prudham.

After he had first moved to Edmonton, Milner met Catherine "Rina" Bury (1887-1952), who at the time was married but estranged from her husband.

Not having seen her for several years, in 1918 while recovering in a hospital in England, Milner reunited with Bury, now divorced, who was serving as a nurse.

Sometime before Rina's death, Milner had met Veronica Villiers FitzGerald while on a trip to the United States.

At the time Milner met Veronica, she was on a trip with her ailing husband trying to restore his health.

In 1996, two years before her death, Veronica Milner made a gift of Long Distance to Vancouver Island University.

The university now runs the estate as the publicly accessible Milner Gardens & Woodlands[8] as a living laboratory for VIU.