bout de papier, Volume 31, Issue No. 1, 2020
bout de papier, Volume 3, Issue No. 2, 1985
Canada, China and Charles Maxwell Forsyth-Smith
My cousin Max Forsyth-Smith died in December 2008. The Halifax Chronicle carried a brief account of his distinguished career with the Trade Commissioner Service. He was a descendent of Nathaniel Guy, a participant in Britain’s conquest of Jamaica in 1626, whose heirs,…
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor died on July 8, years too young. He was my close friend.
Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
Are they reluctant exiles or bold pioneers? That’s the question writer and editor Ronald Skeldon asks about the record numbers of Hong Kong residents seeking foreign residence and citizenship. In his recently published book Reluctant Exiles, this Hong Kong academic and migration…
Encumbrance, Wife, Accompanying Spouse
The recent special edition of bout de papier featured an intimate look at foreign service life. A number of spouses responded to the call for articles. Rather than shorten them in order to include them in the special issue, several of them…
An Asian Day is Over / Une journée en Asie c’est déjà terminée
The ADM returns to his office. He stops to ask one of the officers how the trade awards went in Indonesia. No word until tomorrow. It is now about nine o’clock in the evening in most of the Asian posts. The Asian…
Profession: Canadian Foreign Correspondent
Ben Tierney has one of those rare occupations in Canada — a foreign correspondent for Canadian newspapers. Before he retired to a cottage in Scotland, Neil Reeder and Michael Welsh caught up with him in Hong Kong and were able to turn…
Mutual Hostages; Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century; Discovering Japan: Issues for Canadians
Japan — from the arrival of Japanese immigrants to Canada and the racial hostility they encountered, through the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the unhappy years of the Second World War, to current economic and cultural ties as…
