John Wendell Holmes
 John Wendell Holmes    (diplomat, academic) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 18 June 1910 London (Ontario), Ontario, Canada | |||||||||
| Died | 13 August 1988 (Age 78) London (Ontario), Ontario, Canada | |||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto. | |||||||||
Canadian diplomat and academic. Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in early 1950. Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1960s as president of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
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Not to be confused with John Holmes (British diplomat) or US judge Oliver Wendell Holmes.
John Wendell Holmes[1] was a Canadian diplomat and academic. He attended the 1961 and 1968 Bilderberg meetings as president of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
Education
Born in London, Ontario, Holmes attended the University of Western Ontario and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. From 1933 to 1938, he was a master of English at Pickering College. From 1938 to 1940, he attended the University of London.
He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1943 as a temporary wartime assistant.[2]
From 1947 to 1948, he was the Canadian Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to the Soviet Union. In 1950, he was appointed Acting Permanent Delegate to the United Nations.[3] He became Assistant Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs in 1953 where he remained until he was forced to resign from the department, in 1960, after admitting to being a homosexual.
From 1960 to 1973, Holmes was president (later called director-general) of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs,[4] a non-governmental organization for the discussion and analysis of international affairs.[5]
Holmes was among hundreds of federal civil servants who were targeted in an RCMP homosexual witch hunt that intensified in 1958 and continued through to the mid-1990s.[6]
From 1971 to 1981, he was a professor of international relations at York University, Glendon College. From 1967 until his death, he was a visiting professor of international relations at the University of Toronto. He was also a visiting professor of history at the University of Leeds in 1979 and 1985.[7]
He was the author of Life with Uncle: the Canadian-American Relationship (1981) and The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order 1943-1957 (2 volumes, 1979 and 1982). [8]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1961 | 21 April 1961 | 23 April 1961 | Canada Quebec St-Castin | The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe. |
| Bilderberg/1968 | 26 April 1968 | 28 April 1968 | Canada Mont Tremblant | The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110608034250/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003819
- ↑ "John Wendell Holmes Former Canadian envoy turned to teaching career". The Globe and Mail. August 15, 1988. p. A13.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040904053506/http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/history/hplSearch_results-en.asp?frm=person&lan=1&prsnid=479
- ↑ https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110702064839/http://www.international.gc.ca/media/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071019052742/http://www.ciia.org
- ↑ http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090606/entertainment/books_gay_purge
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20051027174628/http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/johnholmes/cv.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071014125853/http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?lang_id=1&page_id=148#TOC10
