A Chat with Pauline Sabourin

A Chat with Pauline Sabourin

Mitchell Sharp, Commissioner of the Northern Pipeline Agency. Miss Sabourin worked for every undersecretary from Norman Robertson to A.E. Gotlieb. She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1974. Bout de papier spoke with Miss Sabourin in December, 1985.

We Interviewed John Holmes

bout de papier editor Robertson with Holmes.

Behind the ruddy-elfin features, owlish eyebrows and sliding glasses are a pair of penetrating eyes that give a measure of their owner. Gentleman, scholar and diplomat, John Holmes embodies the talents and traits of all three professions.

An Interview With Charles Ritchie

An Interview With Charles Ritchie

We begin with this issue, a series of interviews with some of the great men and women who have served in the Canadian foreign service. Since his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1971, Charles Ritchie has written a series of books…

The Foreign Service as I Remember It

The Foreign Service as I Remember It

I have been asked to make some comments on Canada’s foreign service as I perceived it in my days as Secretary of State of External Affairs, which were from June, 1959, to the defeat of our government in 1963.