Travelling with the SSEA (1942-1946)
My official travels during the first four years of departmental service never extended beyond note-taking expeditions in advance of 1939, The Royal Visit, and occasional (later regularly) Saturday working sessions at Kingsmere. But in April, 1942, when the SSEA said “Can you…
What’s Sauce for the Goose
Appraisal time is rolling around once again. The timing is perfect. As one wag put it: during the spring we live in hope, in the summer we like to think we have cause for expectation, with the fall leaves we begin to…
Dancing Cheek to Cheek
On December 5 the department held a dinner dance at the new Convention Centre. It was a smashing success with the RCMP Band playing a medley of popular tunes that kept the dance floor full. Our FS1(Ds) provided a series of very…
Our Family Afield
bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1985) — Winter 1985 // Hiver 1985, p. 36 This is the team at Canada’s Paris, France, office. bout de papier decided against trying to list by name all the team members. Just try and imagine it: Front row, left to right, it wouldn’t work. How many can […]
Gone From Sight
Missing sons and those tense social functions comprise this time’s tales. Keep them coming.
Freifeld On: Diefenbaker in Dublin
It was on a January morning in 1961 that a cypher telegram from External Affairs in Ottawa came in to the Canadian Embassy in Dublin informing us that, in response to an earlier invitation, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, accompanied by Mrs. Diefenbaker,…
A Chat with Pauline Sabourin
Mitchell Sharp, Commissioner of the Northern Pipeline Agency. Miss Sabourin worked for every undersecretary from Norman Robertson to A.E. Gotlieb. She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1974. Bout de papier spoke with Miss Sabourin in December, 1985.
A Foreign Service Act?
Has the time come for a Foreign Service Act?
Grief de communications
par Christine Manseau Directeur exécutif
Mitchell Sharp
The eyes are blue, the thinning blonde hair is whitening, Sitting erectly at his desk he looks a decade younger than his 74 years. Once described as “a sort of Prairie Gothic Junior, son of Jest Folks” Mitchell Sharp has served the…
