Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside

Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside

Hugh Keenleyside joined External Affairs by examination in 1928 and was sent the following year to open the Canadian Legation in Japan. On return to Canada in 1936 he assumed responsibility for American and Far Eastern Affairs.

Paul Martin, 1903-1992

Paul Martin, 1903-1992

There will be a great variety of assessments of the life and work of the Right Honourable Paul Martin. It is fitting however that bout de papier contain an early appreciation of his service in the Department of External Affairs.

Letters // Correspondance

Letters // Correspondance

We much enjoyed Hugh Stephens’ account of his 1991 trip to Pyongyang, North Korea (bout de papier, Vol. 9 No. 4) and congratulate him on it. Particularly interesting were his observations about Kaesong and the truce village of Panmunjon. As he says,…