Leolyn Dana Wilgress

Leolyn Dana Wilgress (born October 20, 1892 in Vancouver , † July 21, 1969 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian diplomat .

Life

Wilgress joined the Trade Commissioner Service in 1914 . He was then accredited in Russia and Romania . From 1922 to 1932 he was Canadian trade commissioner in Hamburg . In 1932 he became head of the Commercial Intelligence Service in Ottawa . He was a key trade negotiator in the 1930s. In 1940 he became Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry. In 1942 he was sent to Moscow as envoy ; In 1944 the legation was upgraded to an embassy.

After the end of World War II, he was ambassador to the Swiss Confederation in Bern from 1947 to 1948 and representative of the Canadian government to the United Nations in Geneva from 1948 to 1949 . In 1949 he moved to London as High Commissioner , from June 1952 to August 1953 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Foreign Minister of Canada. 1953 to 1958 he was the permanent representative of Canada to the OECD (from June 9, 1953) and NATO (from September 6, 1953) in Paris .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ NATIONS UNIES (Genève) ( Memento of the original of May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom
4. ↑ ROYAUME-UNI DE GRANDE-BRETAGNE ET D'IRLANDE DU NORD ( Memento of the original of May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites3.html
6. ↑ CONSEIL DE L'ATLANTIQUE NORD ( Memento of the original of May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ ORGANIZATION DE COOPÉRATION ET DE DÉVELOPPEMENT ÉCONOMIQUES ( Memento of the original of May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Wilgress, Leolyn Dana (Carrière) ( Memento of the original dated May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
	Canadian Ambassador to the Soviet Union March 28, 1943 to August 4, 1947	John Benjamin Clark Watkins
	Canadian Ambassador to Switzerland October 21, 1947 to September 1948	Paul Émile Renaud
	Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva November 18, 1948 to March 16, 1949	Norman Frederick Henderson Berlis
Norman Robertson	Canadian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom March 31, 1949 to March 18, 1952	Norman Robertson
Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney	Permanent Representative of Canada to the OECD in Paris June 9, 1953 to July 31, 1958	Jules Leger