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Malcolm Norman Bow
Malcolm (Mac) Norman Bow (1918–2005) was a Canadian diplomat. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and educated at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia. His father, Malcolm Ross Bow, was a medical doctor and Alberta deputy minister of health for 25 years. During World War II Bow served with The Calgary Highlanders. He was seconded by the British and posted to Myanmar and India, eventually achieving the rank of major. Returning to Britain in 1945, Bow proposed to Betty Roberts, a British aeronautics inspector at a Lancaster bomber factory. The couple married in March of that year. After returning to Canada, Bow worked as a journalist for the Vancouver Province and completed his undergraduate degree. In 1949 Bow joined the Department of External Affairs. During his diplomatic career, Bow served as Chargé d'affairs a.i. to Spain followed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Cuba and Haiti. Bow considered his greates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
