I just can't escape Rob Ford...and neither can Queen's-McGill Press, who just published a biography of Rob Ford...Canada's ambassador to the Soviet Union in the 1970's. I had to smile when I read on the book's webpage...
"We’ve seen a huge boost in traffic to our website this past
week. Our most visited page, by a landslide, is The Constant Diplomat: Robert
Ford in Moscow, Charles A. Ruud’s biography of a renowned Canadian figure
named…Robert Ford."
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| Geoffrey A.H. Pearson, 1980, shortly before taking the post of Canadian ambassador to the USSR. |
It reminded me that Ford's predecessor after 1980, Geoffrey Pearson, has most of his papers available for research at Carleton University Archives and has an unpublished memoir. Pearson also wrote an account of his father's foreign policy between 1948-1957, which covers Suez. I'm not sure what's available in the papers but there is some material connecting Ford and Pearson.
Cheers,
Jordan
