Books on Canadian Diplomacy

Books BY FORMER HEADS OF MISSION AND OTHER CANADIAN DIPLOMATS

Andrew, Arthur Julian. Defence by Other Means: Diplomacy for the Underdog. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1971.

Bartleman, James. On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service, 1966-2002. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005.

Brown, J. C. Gordon. Blazes Along a Diplomatic Trail: A Memoire of Four Posts in the Canadian Foreign Service. Victoria: Trafford, 2000.

Bruchési, Jean. Canada, Réalité d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1948.

— Voyages … Mirages …. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1957.

— Témoignages d’hier. Montreal: Fides, 1961.

— Souvenir à vaincre. Montreal: Hurtubise, 1961.

— Souvenir d’ambassade. Mémoires, 1959-1972. Montreal: Fides, 1976.

Burney, Derek Hudson. Getting it Done: A Memoir. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.

— and Fen Osler Hampson. Brave New Canada: Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.

Cadieux, Marcel. Le diplomate canadien; elements d’une definition. Montreal: Fides, 1962.

— Embruns. Montreal: le Cercle du livre de France, 1951.

— Première armes. Montreal: le Cercle du livre de France, 1951.

Dandurand, Raoul and Marcel Hamelin. Raoul Dandurand, le sénateur-diplomate: Mémoires, (1861-1942). Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2000.

Drake, Earl G. A Stubble-Jumper in Striped Pants: Memoirs of a Prairie Diplomat. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Ford, Robert Arthur Douglas. Our Man in Moscow: A Diplomat’s Reflections on the Soviet Union from Stalin to Brezhnev. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Fowler, Robert R. A Season in Hell: My 130 days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2011.

Gotlieb, Allan E. Canadian Diplomacy in the 1980s: Leadership and Service. Toronto: Centre for International Studies, 1982.

— Canadian Treaty-Making. Toronto: Butterworths, 1968.

 “I’ll be with you in a minute, Mr Ambassador”: The Education of a Canadian Diplomat in Washington. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

— Disarmament and International Law: A Study of the Role of Law in the Disarmament Process. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1967.

— The Washington Diaries, 1981-1989. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007.

Graham, John W. Whose Man in Havana? Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015.

Ignatieff, George. The Making of a Peace Monger. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

— General A.G.L. McNaughton: A Soldier in Diplomacy. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1967.

Johnston, Peter. Cooper’s Snoopers and Other Follies. Victoria: Trafford, 2002.

Heeney, Arnold. The Things that are Caesar’s: The Memoirs of a Canadian Public Servant. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.

Heinbecker, Paul. Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011.

Keenleyside, H.L. Canada and the United States: Some Aspects of the History of the Republic and the Dominion. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1929.

— The Growth of Canadian Policies in External Affairs. Durham: Duke University Press, 1960.

— International Aid: A Summary, with Special Reference to the Programmes of the United Nations. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1966.

— Memoirs of Hugh L. Keenleyside. Vol. 1, Hammer the Golden Day. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981.

— Memoirs of Hugh L. Keenleyside. Vol. 2, On the Bridge of Time. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982.

LePan, Douglas. Bright Glass of Memory: A Set of four Memoirs. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1979.

Mulroney, David.  Middle Power, Middle Kingdom: What Canadians Need to Know about China in the 21st Century. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2015.

Pardy, Gar. China in a Changing World. Kanata: Agora Books. 2020  

Pearson, Lester Bowles. Mike: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson. 3 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972, 1973, 1975.

Reid, Escott. Radical Mandarin: the Memoirs of Escott Reid. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

— Envoy to Nehru. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

— Hungary and Suez, 1956: a view from New Delhi. Ahmedabad: Allied Publishers, 1987.

— On Duty: a Canadian at the making of the United Nations, 1945-1946. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983.

— Time of Fear and Hope: the Making of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.

— Strengthening the World Bank. Chicago: Adlai Stevenson Institute, 1973.

— The Revolution in Canadian foreign policy, 1947-1951. New Delhi, Indian Council of World Affairs, 1958.

Ritchie, Charles. Undiplomatic Diaries, 1937-1971. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008.

Roberts, Peter. Raising Eyebrows: An Undiplomatic Memoirs. Ottawa: Golden Dog Press, 2000.

Robertson, Gordon. Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Ronning, Chester. A Memoir of China in Revolution: From the Boxer Rebellion to the People’s Republic. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.

Smith, Arnold Cantwell. The We-They Frontier: From International Relations to World Politics. Leeds: University of Leeds Review, 1984.

— and Clyde Sanger. Stitches in Time: the Commonwealth in World Politics. Don Mills: General Publishing. 1981.

Wilgress, Leolyn Dana. Two years in Moscow: Canada’s ambassador speaks. Vancouver: Vancouver Council for Canadian Soviet Friendship, 1945.

— Dana Wilgress: Memoirs. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967

You may consult this link to search the data base of Canadian Heads of Mission:

https://w05.international.gc.ca/CHOMA-CDMCEp

 

and for Consuls-General, 1943-2020

Consuls General 1943- 2020.10.29 Consolidated

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