From Vietnam, Looking Outward
From April 27 to May 12 a delegation of 12 Canadian academics visited Vietnam to examine conditions and prospects with a view to compiling a book on Vietnam in the 1990’s: Canadian Perspectives. They also had talks in Bangkok, Thailand before and…
Lance et compte, version chinoise
L’hiver à Pékin, même s’il est moins rigoureux qu’à Ottawa, peut quand même paraître long et ennuyeux. En fait, puisqu’il ne neige pratiquement jamais, c’est plutôt du sable que les vents du nord amènent du désert de Gobi, dont il faut se…
Leaving Tibet
It was dark in the early hours of the morning in Tingri, Tibet.
Saving China: Canadian Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom 1888–1959
The 600 Canadian Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries withdrawn from China after the People’s Republic was established in 1949 represented the largest Canadian activity overseas to that date, apart from the Canadian expeditionary forces overseas in the first and second world wars.…
Just Right for the VIP Who Has Everything
When Brian Mulroney makes his official visits abroad as Prime Minister, his planners in Ottawa find that not the least of the diplomatic problems they have to confront is what gifts Canada’s PM should bestow on his foreign hosts.
Canada in World Affairs 1971-1973
I haven’t read all the books written about the period while I was in the Cabinet. But I read this one as a former actor would read the review by a leading critic of his stage appearances years before – with some…
Société d’études et de consultation du Canadien Pacifique (Ltée)
Le Canadien Pacifique, cette compagnie de grande taille que vous connaissez tous, possède une société de consultation active à l’étranger depuis le début des années soixante-dix. Votre humble serviteur a quitté le service des délégués commerciaux du temps pour s’y joindre en…
Chester Ronning
The resonant Mandarin Chinese tones in which Chester Ronning told his colourful anecdotes convinced Chinese and foreigners alike that he was a man steeped in Chinese ways. Without doubt he was uniquely qualified to make a significant contribution to Canada’s relations with…
