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( French: ''Consulat général du Canada à Boston'') is a diplomatic mission of
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, United States. The geographical jurisdiction of the Boston office covers the
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located off the South Coast of the Canadian Province of Newfoundland. It further supports the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. and is one of twelve Consulates-General and three Consulates/Trade Commission offices located in the
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. The Consulate General in Boston opened in 1951. The mission focuses on relations dealing in: technology, research and development, product commercialization, joint-ventures trade relationships, strategic partnerships, and both greenfield and
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s between New England and Canada. The Canadian province of Québec has maintained a separate secondary
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/ref> as part of the provincial Ministry of International Relations since the early 1970s.


Past Consuls-General

* James A. Strong (1951/02/01 – 1969/07/19) * George S. Patterson (1951/07/31 – 1953/?/?) * Jean-Louis Délisle (1953/11/? – 1954/07/?) *
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(1954/09/22 – 1957/09/03) *
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(1957/03/14 – 1958?) * Stuart D. Helmsley (1958/09/25 – ?) *
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(1970/06/04 – 1973/09/18) * Marion A. Macpherson (1976/09/21 – 1977/08/31) * Timothy A. Williams (1978/01/19 – ?) * Jean-Marie Gaétan Déry (1980/?/? – 1983/?/?) *Hon. Barnett J. Danson (1983/?/? – 1986/?/?) * Pierrette A. Lucas (1987/?/? – 1989/?/? ) *Hon. Thomas McMillan (1989/08/24 – 1993/?/?) *Hon. Donald W. Cameron (1993/06/23 – 1997/?/?) *Hon.
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(1997/07/10 – 2001/?/?) *Hon.
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(2001/08/20 – 2005/?/?) * Stan Keyes (2005/08/02 – 2006/?/?) *
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(2006/07/13 – 2010/08/09) * Patrick G. Binns (2010/08/10 – 2015/04/22) * David N. Alward (2015/02/23 - )


See also

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Boston–Halifax relations Relations between Boston, Massachusetts, United States and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada date back to the founding of Halifax in 1749, when Boston businesses had an interest in the new settlement for shipping and fish trade. The bond between the tw ...
* Atlantica (trade zone), a theorized concept of a free trade zone between Canada and New England. *
Northern New England Corridor The Northern New England Corridor is one of ten federally designated higher-speed rail corridors in the United States. The proposed corridor would have allowed passenger trains to travel from Boston, Massachusetts, to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in ...
, a concept of high speed rail between Canada and New England. * Canada-United States relations * Embassy of the United States in Ottawa *
List of Canadian ambassadors to the United States This is a list of ambassadors of Canada to the United States, formally titled as ''Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America for Her isMajesty's Government in Canada''. Originally, Canada's top diplomatic represe ...
* List of diplomatic missions in Boston


References


External links


Consulate General of Canada in Boston

Past Consul-Generals

Canada and America
Government of Canada website
Trade statistics between Canada and New England
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