Rt. Hon. Roland Michener
A distinguished lawyer, Roland Michener was first elected as a member of the Ontario Legislature and later to the Parliament of Canada, where he subsequently became Speaker of the House of Commons for five years. He served as High Commissioner to India…
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives
Its title notwithstanding, this book is not an encyclopedia in the conventional sense, but rather a reference work produced in a manner that will be familiar to readers of, for example, the New Cambridge Modern History. That is, it is a collection…
Radical Mandarin: The Memoirs of Escott Reid
The Canadian “mandarins,” that remarkable group of public servants who came to prominence in the 1940s, have greatly enriched Canadian historiography and public debate since the 1970s. I suppose no-one has counted the number of books, articles, lectures, and essays that External…
Canada and India: The Negotiations for the Supply of the N.R.X.
On May 18, 1974, India detonated an underground nuclear device in the Rajasthan desert. In its official announcement, the Indian government laconically stated that the nuclear explosion experiment was solely conducted for “peaceful” purposes. The experiment would help India in underground research…
Beetles
With its iridescent carapace glinting in the African sunshine, the ungainly beetle lumbered unhesitatingly over the edge of the concrete staircase. The fall tumbled it onto its back and stunned it into temporary immobility. Slowly it began waving its legs, clawing at…
Life in the Servant Belt
by Laurel Pardy
Incident in the New Year
It was the first working day of the New Year. For the Department of External Affairs it was just another ordinary death abroad. A young thin man who had been living in India for six months had died. Telexes were being sent…
Meeting Mahatma Gandhi
In June, 1947, Canada opened its first mission in India. On Dominion Day, the High Commissioner, John D. Kearney, with his Counsellor, Morley Scott, called upon Mahatma Gandhi. From Scott’s private papers, in the Archives of the University of British Columbia, comes…
A Matter of Principle
There has always been a fuzzy line when it comes to the limits of consular assistance to be provided to Canadians abroad. There is the constant judgement call which must be made between following our consular mandate by providing legitimate assistance to…
Tales from Away — The Old Story Teller
by Laurel Pardy
