Commissions High

Roy MacLaren was high commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland from 1996 to 2000. He spent twelve years in the Canadian Foreign Service and served as parliamentary secretary for Energy, Mines, and Resources and minister of Natio

" ... an at times wryly humous and nostalgic history of teh Canadian High Commission in London up to the eve of Britain's entry into the Common Market. [MacLaren] presents a vast amount of diverting political, social and biographical information ..."--Times Literary Supplement, 3 August 2007