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David Reece
Born in Winnipeg on Saint Valentine’s Day, 1926, of a Welsh father and an English mother, David took his secondary schooling at Ravenscourt and began his university education in 1943 at the University of Manitoba. In May 1944 he joined the Canadian…
Panditji Pearson in Colombo: the View from Headquarters
The Conference of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers which took place in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was the first such gathering to take place in Asia and it undoubtedly was a new and interesting experience for the members of the Canadian Delegation, which…
Stranger in Paradise?
As the report reprinted below indicates, some tourists are more observant than others. When he sent this numbered letter to the Department of External Affairs, James George was Canada’s high commissioner in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and consequently a member of the…
Seize the Day: Lester B. Pearson and Crisis Diplomacy
Students of Canadian foreign policy, members of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and former colleagues of Lester Pearson already owe a considerable debt to Geoffrey Pearson for their appreciation of his father’s life and his…
