bout de papier, Volume 10, Issue No. 2, 1993
The Transition from Liberal Leader to Prime Minister: 15 November (1948)
In mid-November, the Prime Minister of Canada — a former Secretary of State for External Affairs, who had first been elected to the House of Commons nearly forty years earlier, who had led the Liberal Party of Canada to three consecutive electoral…
Some Little Time
Canada’s longest-serving Prime Minister, W.L. Mackenzie King, retired from that office on 15 November 1948. As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of that change in this country’s political leadership, Dr. Gibson recalls that a favourite diversionary tactic for Mr. King in dealing…
Habbakuk, Planet and All That
When I came to the East Block in 1938, I had no particular experience in filing nor in record keeping, though I had had a working acquaintance with many consecutive years of despatches, minutes and memoranda of C.O. series in the Public…
