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Robert Parke Cameron
Born in Montreal, October 15, 1920, died in Ottawa, Ontario March 12, 2012, aged 91.
John M. Fraser
John MacLeod Fraser was born in Montreal in 1935 — in the depths of the Depression. In 1944, at the end of the school year, the family moved to Ottawa to follow our father, Blair, who had gone to work for Maclean’s.…
Witold Maciej Weynerowski
In Witold Weynerowski we have lost a fervent Canadian, an outstanding diplomat, an excellent sportsman, and a fine human being and family man.
Chiel’s Kaddish
During my final days in Warsaw in 1989, a Canadian from Montréal came into the embassy unannounced and asked to see me. That was how I came to meet a remarkable man and to visit an unusual town.
Vignettes from the Global Village // Légendes du village global
As the jet rose into the hot Brazilian sky I could see the vestiges of the Minister’s visit through the haze already burning off in the noon-day sun; a great, long, four-metre tree-trunk, gathered at the base by an enormous bag of…
Vignettes from the Global Village // Légendes du village global
My first visit to Poland in September 1991, after my departure as an infant fifty-two years earlier, brought me indelible memories. Though everything I saw there was new to me, much appeared oddly comforting, even familiar. During this and subsequent visits I…
A European Afternoon / Un après-midi européen
The hum of CNN news flicks on the screen in the corner of his office. The television is always on. The Financial Times and the Herald Tribune lay neatly folded on the desk top. The desk is empty except for single sheet…
