Who killed Le Breton Fats?
I asked Effie what he was reading. It was a slow day at the office, but I still should have known better. ” A crime caper,” unfinished by the Brontës and completed by Mickey Spillane. he replied, adjusting his skirt over a…
Robert Louis Rogers
For many of us who joined the Foreign Service a decade after the end of the war, Louis Rogers was something of a legend in his own time; certainly in ours. Combining all the professional virtues for which “The Department” had become…
Ormond Wilson Dier
On a cold grey January morning in 1949, my wife, Marcelle, and I had been waiting for many hours in the Mexico City railway station for the arrival of the train from Chicago, where Orme had been vice-consul. It was due in…
Donald Anthony Moorman
Je désire rappeler avec beaucoup de ferveur et d’amitié le souvenir de Donald Moorman qui s’est taillé une juste réputation de 1954 à 1990 au sein du ministère. Né à Ottawa et y ayant fait ses classes, il passe le concours d’admission…
Sheila Watt-Cloutier — Championne du Traité sur les polluants organiques persistants
Le ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce international a lancé un site Web éducatif destiné principalement aux enseignants et aux étudiants de niveau secondaire au Canada, mais dont une grande partie du contenu pourrait aussi intéresser un auditoire plus vaste. Les…
The Further Adventures of Flavius Priscus
Mine finto entry bomale ploma Slavius Prisos presented ‘ account of a mission he undertook in 449 A.D. to the court of Attila the Hun. Colleagues have asked to know more about Priscus’ career in the Roman foreign service, and whether he…
Cooper’s Snoopers and Other Follies
There is a big disappointment, for which you should prepare yourself, when you get to page 164 of this little book: it ends. And it ends far too soon. To be fair, the author has subtitled it “Fragments of a Life” and…
The Invisible War: The Untold Secret Story of Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group
In 1944, just over 300 Canadian soldiers were sent to Australia on a Top Secret intelligence mission which has largely remained untold until now. They were members of Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group (1CSWG) and their job was to collect signals…
Canadian Peacekeepers in Indochina 1954–1973: Recollections
In 1631, a year before he died in Milan, Fr. Christoforo Borri, S.J., one of the first missionaries to Cochin-China, wrote in his “Relacione della nueve missione … al Regno della Cocincina” that the first strangers to arrive in Vietnam were shipwrecked…
A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization
First, a word on our author. Michael Hart is not just the holder of the Simon Reisman Chair in Trade Policy, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and a leading Canadian authority on trade policy. He is also a former…
