bout de papier, Volume 20, Issue No. 3, 2004
bout de papier, Volume 12, Issue No. 2, 1995
On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service, 1966–2002
The review in bout de papier last winter of James Bartleman’s account of his early life, Out of Muskoka, expressed the hope that some day we might be given a full account of his professional life. Now we have it.
On Six Continents
I first saw Dhaka on a sweltering afternoon in June 1972. The two-hour flight from Bangkok over Burma and the Bay of Bengal gave me time to sit back in air-conditioned comfort and feel that everything was going my way. Here I…
On Being Canadian — Abroad
Canada Day (or Dominion Day) is always a good time for Canadians to take stock of themselves, if they are not too busy barbecuing or jumping into the closest lake, river or stream. Or that is how I imagine it, living in…
Encumbrance, Wife, Accompanying Spouse
The recent special edition of bout de papier featured an intimate look at foreign service life. A number of spouses responded to the call for articles. Rather than shorten them in order to include them in the special issue, several of them…
