Some Summer Songs
bout de papier, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1994) — Summer 1994 // Été 1994, p. 42 “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Eighth Floor” (To the tune of “I’ve been workin’on the Railroad”)Verse 1I’ve been workin’ on the eighth floor,All the live long day.Tryin’ to figure out a game planJust to pass the time away.Don’t you […]
Albert Frederick Hart
Bert served in the RCAF during World War II. He joined External Affairs in 1949 and served in Eastern European posts and Ottawa before being appointed High Commissioner to Ghana, with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Togo and Upper Volta…
Ralph Edwards Reynolds
Ralph served as a Flight Lieutenant in the RCAF from 1940-45. He joined External Affairs in 1950 and served in several European posts before being appointed Ambassador to Ethiopia and concurrently to Madagascar and Somalia in 1971 and in 1975 as Ambassador…
Devolution and the Desk Officer: Rethinking the Way We Work
by Daryl Copeland
Back to Basics
Senior management at External Affairs and International Trade Canada has embraced a “back to basics” approach to foreign policy. This means that frivolous add-on overseas programs, such as immigration, sports, culture and wine-tasting, which do not correspond to the Department’s core function…
John Alexander McCordick
Jack was an accomplished linguist in Russian, German, Spanish and French. He served in the Intelligence Corps in World War II. Joining External Affairs in 1943, he was posted immediately to the Embassy in Kuibyshev, to which diplomatic missions had been evacuated…
Sydney David Pierce, O.B.E.
Syd trained at McGill in economics and was a runner on the Canadian team on the 1925 Olympics. After a career as a journalist and businessman, he served with the Department of Munitions and Supply in Washington from 1940-44. He then joined…
Life after the Foreign Service
Life after the Foreign Service is good — in fact marvellous.
Cultural Diplomacy: A Question of Government Policy
On March 17 last, I gave a lecture at the University of Victoria to the students of a course on cultural policy on the theory and practice of cultural diplomacy, or, as it is more generally called, international cultural relations. The main…
Transition and Renewal
The arrival of fall, resolution of the perennial posting cycle, and the annual general meeting of the PAFSO membership, inevitably result in change in the membership of bout de papier’s Editorial Board. Members depart on foreign assignments; others have returned from abroad.…
