bout de papier, Volume 14, Issue No. 1, 1997
bout de papier, Volume 3, Issue No. 2, 1985
Running on Empty
RUNNING ON EMPTY is the most recent addition to the prestigious McGill-Queen’s collection of Studies in (Canadian) Ethnic History. This impressive tome recounts the intriguing story of Canada’s response to the Indochinese refugee crises from 1975 to 1980. Proposed by retired diplomat…
Arthur Blanchette 1921–2003
My wite, Ardath, and I met Arthur and Marcelle Blanchette when we were posted to South Africa immediately after our marriage. Arthur was Acting High Commissioner, and he taught me how to be a Third Secretary — not a skill I had…
Canadian Peacekeepers in Indochina 1954–1973: Recollections
In 1631, a year before he died in Milan, Fr. Christoforo Borri, S.J., one of the first missionaries to Cochin-China, wrote in his “Relacione della nueve missione … al Regno della Cocincina” that the first strangers to arrive in Vietnam were shipwrecked…
Ho Ho Ho in Hanoi
Your card, which is certainly one of the most welcome I have received, arrived in yesterday’s bag. I had not forgotten that I had promised you a report on Hanoi, and thought that a sort of report-cum-Christmas card would interest you.
