Le Canada, le Québec et la dette de Louis XV
Est-il possible, trente ans après sa visite de 1967, d’exprimer sans passion le sens de la démarche de Charles de Gaulle envers le Canada et le Québec? Cet homme âgé de soixante-dix-sept ans, engagé dans un deuxième et dernier mandat présidentiel, a-t-il…
Malcolm MacDonald: Bringing an End to Empire
In many ways Malcolm MacDonald lived a charmed life. Although not born into a wealthy family, as the son of Ramsay MacDonald — Labour leader and future prime minister — his early life was filled with interesting and increasingly well-connected people. He…
Best-Kept Secret (Canadian Intelligence in the Second World War)
This seems just another book about Canada’s secret wartime activities and exploits. It is much more than that. It is a skillfully researched, well-constructed, clearly-presented account of Canada’s successful entry in wartime into the highly secret, arcane business of communications intelligence. It…
Seize the Day: Lester B. Pearson and Crisis Diplomacy
Students of Canadian foreign policy, members of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and former colleagues of Lester Pearson already owe a considerable debt to Geoffrey Pearson for their appreciation of his father’s life and his…
Marler House in Tokyo
On 27 May, 1991, Prince Takamado, a cousin of the Emperor, met the Prime Ministers of Canada and Japan in Marler House in Tokyo to sign a document commemorating the opening of the new chancery. If ghosts could return, the spirit of…
The D-Day Dodgers: The Canadians in Italy 1943-45
In the Persian Gulf in 1991, Canadian soldiers, sailors and aircrew went to war for the first time in almost forty years. Now there are 1,200 Canadian battle-ready soldiers in Somalia engaged not in peacekeeping but peacemaking. There are two infantry battalions…
Paul Martin, 1903-1992
There will be a great variety of assessments of the life and work of the Right Honourable Paul Martin. It is fitting however that bout de papier contain an early appreciation of his service in the Department of External Affairs.
