Commissions High

"Roy MacLaren traces the history of Canada's High Commission back to the years following Confederation. He shows that Charles Tupper, George Perley, and Lord Strathcona were especially active in demonstrating the value of imperial cooperation and describes how the intimacy of the Anglo-Canadian relationship suffered in the inter-war years as a result of MacKenzie King's attempt to court political support in Quebec by portraying London as peopled by imperial centralists." "MacLaren revisits World War II, exploring how Vincent Massey and his post-war successor, Norman Robertson, recognized that a greatly debilitated Britain would seek economic salvation within Europe rather than in a rapidly changing Commonwealth. He also examines how, as United States trade and investment with Canada rapidly increased, George Drew (John Diefenbaker's appointee) worked in vain to increase Commonwealth ties. This left Charles Ritchie, high commissioner in 1970, to deal with the profound change in Anglo-Canadian relations despite Pierre Trudeau's growing commitment to the new Commonweath."--Jacket.

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Editions

3

Pages

584

ISBN

9780773530362

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