bout de papier, Volume 15, Issue No. 2, 1998
bout de papier, Volume 16, Issue No. 3, 1999
Benjamin Rogers 1911–2004
The following text was read by Mr. Menzies at the Memorial service for Benjamin Rogers at St. Andrew’s Church, Ottawa, on January 3, 2005.
Michaelena McLaughlin Remembers
Once in Nigeria we visited a CUSO couple in the small village where they had been teaching for the past two years. We travelled from Lagos in the embassy’s 4-wheel drive vehicle, which seemed to be the only vehicle in sight. Our…
The Last Time I Saw Vaclav Havel
It was a warm and sultry evening in Prague as I ran across the flag-stones and through the inner courtyards of the Castle. I was late for what was going to be one of Vaclav Havel’s most interesting forays into what could…
Day One of the Revolution
Monday, November 20. Vaclav Havel announces the creation of the Civic Forum. Two hundred thousand people take to the streets. It is the end for the hard-line regime in Czechoslovakia.
Alan McLaine
bout de papier is honoured to print below the text of the speaking notes for Mr. Blair Seaborn’s oral eulogy on that sad occasion. Editor
