Humble Origins: “For want of a better phrase, the External Affairs of the Dominion”
G iven the central position within the Government of Canada that the Department of External Affairs has occupied for most of its eighty-year history and the prominent international role played by so many of its diplomats, it seems hard to believe that…
Elizabeth Pauline MacCallum
by Anne Trowell Hillmen
From the President
Un communiqué du Ministère des Affaires extérieures annonçait le 29 mars dernier des nominations diplomatiques entre autres, celle de Mme Joan Winser au poste de Consul général à Los Angeles.
Pols Pros and Grey Paper
Rumours of changes involving ministers, deputies, indeed the structure of both department and the foreign service, may prove little more than midsummer madness. We hope so. What the department does not need at a time when it is wrestling with such fundamental…
Take a Letter, Sir Joseph . . .
Bout de papier offers $50 in cash or a book token redeemable at Shirley Leishman Book Store to the first correctly answered puzzle opened on August 31, 1984. All members, affiliates and their families are eligible to enter this competition. So hurry…
“Some Are More Exceptional Than Others”
It is somewhat perturbing to read of the manner in which concerns of the Foreign Service Group, in relation to Commerce Officers, have been expressed in your article.
Tales From Harvard
Last year, when first I applied for educational leave to attend the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, my objective was to learn management techniques for government agencies. Looking at External and other agencies I was familiar with in Ottawa, I thought…
The Law and External Affairs
The “new” External Affairs has its basis in the Department of External Affairs Act promulgated on November 17, 1983.
Historical Profile: FSO’s of External 1909-79
The higher level of departures in the 1960s and 1970s is mainly attributable to retirement of many of those who joined earlier. The statistics, however, reflect a definite trend to a higher degree of mobility beginning in the decade of the ’60’s…
External Affairs — 1909-1984
bout de papier, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1984) — June 1984 // Juin 1984, pp. 8–9 Elizabeth MacCallum, Chargé d’Affaires in Beirut 1954-56; was the first woman head of post — shown here with King Hussein of Jordan. Andrew Bell and Marcel Cadieux at work in Canada House — London 1944. Joseph Pope, Under Secretary […]
