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Between Friends
The Undefended Border

Jean Chretien (1934 – )
Canada’s most recent Former Prime Minister, one of this country’s most experienced politicians, assumed office 1993.

George W. Bush (1946 – )
Son of the 41st President, Mr. Bush is a former Governor of Texas. His margin of victory was very slim, but his handling of post “9 / 11” events has raised his public support considerably.

William J. Clinton (1946 – )
The 42nd U.S. President was born William Jefferson Blythe IV in the state of Arkansas, but later took his stepfather’s surname. His biological father died in a car accident before Bill had been born.

George H. W. Bush (1924 – )
George Bush senior served as Vice-President to Ronald Reagan prior to his own installation as president in 1989. His stated aim to create “a kinder, gentler America.”

James Earl Carter, Jr. (1924 – )
In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the Oval Office from Republican Gerald Ford. He is a former Governor of Georgia.

John G Diefenbaker(1895 – 1979)
Canada’s 13th Prime Minister, who became known as “The Chief,” fought his first election and his last on the same theme: “One Canada, One Nation.”

Lester B Pearson (1897 – 1972)
This Nobel Peace Prize winner served as Canada’s Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968 and ensured that parliament adopted an official Canadian flag in time for Canada’s 100th year: 1967.

Brian Mulroney (1939 – )
The 1984 election gave he and his Progressive Conservative party the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian history. He left politics in 1993.

John A Macdonald (1815 – 1891)
Sir John A. Macdonald, shown standing at the carriage door, was elected Canada’s first Prime Minister. His vision saw a united country from sea to sea. He served as the Member of Parliament for Victoria from 1878 to 1882.

George Washington(1732 – 1799)
Washington, the figure inside the carriage, was the first President. He declared that America should avoid foreign entanglements as a matter of policy.

Roman Interlude
The Beginning of The End

Julius Caesar (100 – 44BC)
This Roman Emperor was the most powerful man of his century, but was felled by his countrymen.

Cleopatra (69 – 30 BC)
With the death of her father, Ptolemy, she ‘engaged’ Caesar to end the rivalry of her brother for the Egyptian throne.

Martyrs of Hope
“seems the good, they die young”

J. F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)
The 35th U.S. President was the youngest ever elected to the Oval Office; his three years in power are referred to as America’s “Camelot” era. By the close of the 1990’s, both his wife Jacqueline and son John Jr. were gone as well, leaving only daughter Caroline.

Jacqueline Kennedy (1929 – 1994)
Representing the wives and families who lost their husbands as they were serving their country is JFK’s glamorous wife.

Robert F. Kennedy (1925 – 1968)
Bobby withdrew from public life with the assassination of his brother, but by 1968 he was in a presidential election race that ended his life in Los Angeles.

Dr. M. L. King, Jr. (1929 – 1968)
He had adopted Gandhi’s strategy of peaceful protest as he led the movement against racial segregation. This leader was felled by a bullet in Memphis.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
His determination to abolish slavery led to the American Civil War. Within months of the war’s end, slavery was outlawed and Lincoln had been assassinated.

No. 10 Downing Street
British Prime Ministers . . .

Margaret Thatcher (1925 – )
The Iron Lady of British politics was Britian's first female Prime Minister with the Conservative Party’s election victory in 1979. Insiders nick-named her tina: there is no alternative.

Tony Blair (1953 – )
A Scottish-born lawyer who led the Labour Party to victory in the 1997 general election. He has since been re-elected.

Battle of Trafalgar
Napoleon’s First Defeat …

Napoleon Bonaparte(1769 – 1821)
At the peak if his ambitions, the five-foot-two Napoleon was the most powerful man in the Western world. Napoleonic legal codes are still in world wide use today.

Viscount Nelson (1758 – 1805)
Although outnumbered, Nelson’s ships pursued the French and Spanish fleets, engaging them off Cape Trafalgar. The British all but annihilated the enemy ships, but Nelson himself was killed.

Architects of Victory
So Much Owed To So Many …

Franklin Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)
The 32nd and longest-serving U.S. President is remembered for his Depression-era New Deal and his wartime presidency.

Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
Recounting his experiences during the early years of W.W.II to Canada’s Parliament, Churchill reminded those assembled of the dire prediction that was made: “In 3 weeks, Britain shall have her neck wrung like a chicken! … Some chicken! Some neck!”

Lord Mountbatten (1900 – 1979)
Pacific Allied Commander during WWII, he fulfilled a role thereafter as the last Viceroy of India.

Dwight Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)
Europe Allied Commander during WWII, then elected U.S. President.

Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970)
This man was the leader of the Free French Forces during the Second World War.

F. M. Montgomery (1887 – 1976)
He was described as “a prickly sort of chap”; superb tactician & leader.

Earl of Tunis (1891 – 1969)
Allied Commander in Africa and Italy during World War II, he later served as Governor General of Canada for two terms.

Cove of First Canadians
A Cultural Heritage …

Chief Dan George (1899 – 1981)
Poet and professional actor, he was born into the Squamish band of British Columbia.

E. Pauline Johnson (1861 – 1913)
Published several books on native cultures and also performed readings from those books.

Senator Gladstone (1887 – 1971)
He was Canada’s first aboriginal senator, appointed in 1958 by Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

The Meiji Restoration
Foundations for Modern Japan

Emperor Meiji (1852 – 1912)
A contemporary of England’s Queen Victoria, Meiji presided over 45 years of Japanese history when Japan emerged from its isolationist practices.