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Paul Durand
Paul Durand joined the Canadian International Development Agency in 1975 after a career in private banking. Following a posting as First Secretary (Development) in Barbados (1976-78), he moved to the Privy Council Office before becoming Director of CIDA’s Tanzania Program (1983-87), He…
Model Forests: A Diplomatic Vignette
Canada has long been involved in the Model Forest Project on Chiloe Island in Southern Chile that Rolando Ramirez mentions. In May of 2001, then Governor General Clarkson and her multidisciplinary delegation of distinguished Canadians made a State Visit to Chile. She…
George Bernard Summers, Q.C., LL.D. 1906-1993
Bernard Summers, the first Newfoundlander to enter the Canadian Foreign Service, died in Spain, after a long illness, on November 29, 1993. He will be remembered with respect and affection by many former colleagues.
Beyond the Walls: Architectural Rambles Abroad
Cast your mind back to your first foreign posting. Sifting through the memories, extract that single feature which most forcefully and subtly shaped your perception of that society.
Tales from Chile: Dip Bags, Hot Stuff and Jesus Poblete
Three years in Chile during the most volatile era of the “protestas” of the mid-1980s produced a wealth of memorable experiences … of demonstrations, strikes, funerals and a major earthquake, larger, but thankfully less lethal than the ones which were to hit…
A Story
On September 11, 1973 a military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of President Salvador Allende in Chile. The coup was unlike most in Latin America in that bloody fighting continued for several days and the armed forces pursued…
