William Arthur Dymond
Bill Dymond, a veteran of Canadian trade and other negotiations, and a mainstay of Carleton’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law over the past 10 years, passed away November 24, after a brief but brave struggle with cancer.
John M. Fraser
John MacLeod Fraser was born in Montreal in 1935 — in the depths of the Depression. In 1944, at the end of the school year, the family moved to Ottawa to follow our father, Blair, who had gone to work for Maclean’s.…
Alfred Pick
Alfred Pick had a long and wide-ranging diplomatic career, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1940, holding six ambassadorial appointments in Latin America, Europe, North Africa and the United States before retiring in 1976.
Arthur Menzies
Remarks by Mr. Jacques Roy, President of the Retired Heads of Mission Association. at the funeral service for Arthur Menzies on
The Constant Diplomat: Robert Ford in Moscow
Robert Ford joined Canada’s foreign ministry – then the Department of External Affairs – in July 1940, when being a diplomat, especially a Canadian diplomat, still mattered. It was a simpler time, or so it sometimes seems in retrospect, when diplomacy was…
Too much conviviality in Leopoldville?
Michel Gauvin was a decorated veteran who received the Distinguished Service Order for his valour while serving with Le Regiment de la Chaudiere in Northwestern Europe in the Second World War. While still in the army, he was seconded to the Prime…
Two Decades and Six Days
Readers of bout de papier will recall that we earlier reprinted messages from John Starnes, when he was Canada’s Ambassador in Cairo, about the outbreak of the “Six Day War” in June 1967. Eric Bergbusch, who recounted his travels to the Middle…
Thomas LeMesurier Carter, M.C.
Tom Carter died peacefully in hospital in The Hague, the Netherlands on May 18, 2005, after a brief bout with cancer. His funeral took place on May 23 at the Church of Saint Philip and Saint John, The Hague. He is buried…
Angus Matheson — 1919–2003
Angus Matheson came to External Affairs, as many of us did, in the last half of the 1940s, then still young, yet a veteran of World War I. Some of us joined External Affairs as Foreign Service Officers hoping to be involved…
An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years: The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan
shaping Canadian foreign policy. “Trudeau’s style,” MacGuigan writes, “was … dangerous. His instinct, it always seemed to me, Was not just to establish objectively that he was right, by demolishing his opponents’ arguments, but also to destroy their self-respect, to hurt them…
