Montreal banker and railway magnate Sir John Rose was chosen by John A. Macdonald to represent Canada in London, first with no title and later as “financial commissioner.”
Montreal banker and railway magnate Sir John Rose was chosen by John A. Macdonald to represent Canada in London, first with no title and later as “financial commissioner.”
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High Commissioner Norman Robertson, left, joined Mackenzie King when the prime minister was attending the Commonwealth Prime
Ministers’ Conference in 1944.
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As was common among diplomats in the 19th Century, Sir John Rose conducted his own private and highly profitable dealings while also negotiating various agreements and promoting emigration.
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Montreal banker and railway magnate Sir John Rose was chosen by John A. Macdonald to represent Canada in London, first with no title and later as “financial commissioner.”
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onald Smith, the driver of the CPR’s last spike, was high commissioner from 1896 to 1914.
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Sir Charles Tupper, a financier and former cabinet minister, was also a medical doctor and when the British denied entry to Canadian cattle under his watch, claiming they were diseased, Tupper himself autopsied some of the animals to prove them free of pathogens.
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Queen Mary, Peter Larkin and King George at the opening of Canada House, 1925.
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Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Canada House, 1951.
