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Peter Bakewell
Peter was born in the UK and educated at St. John’s College, Oxford. He moved to Canada in 1972 and taught elementary school in British Columbia where he met his first wife Ann. Moving to the Maritimes, he worked for about five…
Unofficially Dull But Officially Sharp
In this selection of documents, we depart from our usual practice of reprinting unpublished material from files at Library and Archives Canada. Instead, to complement the material elsewhere in this issue about Canada’s response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968…
The Czechoslovak Refugee Movement: How Canada met the Challenge
From personal recollections by John Zawisza, Joe Bissett, Maria Beaulne, Joyce Cavanagh-Woods, David Bullock, Mike Molloy, Doug Dunnington, Charles Morrow and Daryl Mesheau recorded in the “Bulletin” of the Canadian Immigration Historical Society, July 2005, and adapted for bout by Gerry Maffre.
How I Became Canadian
My route to Canada was more indirect than others but my experience in leaving Czechoslovakia would parallel that of many who faced the trauma of those days. I suspect my love for the Canada I came to know probably would resonate with…
A Matter of Conscience: Early Warning of Russia’s Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Editor’s Note: Knowing too little is always a handicap, but knowing too much can present its own dilemmas. As Charles Cole graphically recounts in his narrative of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968, early warning of the Russian-led invasion presented a…
NATO Membership Enlargement — A Moral Issue
The word “expansion”, when applied to geo-political situations, connotes an element of calculated planning and irredentism which is wholly lacking in the current enlarged membership issue facing the NATO member states. In fact, in the intense planning for peace within the Alliance…
Resistance & Revolution — Vaclav Havel’s Czechoslovakia
Vaclav Havel might well be remembered by historians for providing the best vision as a world leader in the final years of this century. His speeches, plays and essays have been read by diplomats, writers and legislators around the world. The author…
Bohemian Tragedies
“Who is master of Bohemia,” the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, once remarked, “is master of Europe”. That strategic importance was a mixed blessing in the history of the republic of Czechoslovakia, as it had been in the thousand years after Great…
