Malcolm (Mac) Norman Bow (1918–2005) was a

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. He was born in

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, and educated at the

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and the

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. His father, Malcolm Ross Bow, was a medical doctor and

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deputy minister of health for 25 years. During

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Bow served with

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. He was seconded by the British and posted to

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and

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, eventually achieving the rank of major. Returning to Britain in 1945, Bow proposed to Betty Roberts, a British aeronautics inspector at a

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factory. The couple married in March of that year. After returning to Canada, Bow worked as a journalist for the

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and completed his undergraduate degree. In 1949 Bow joined the Department of External Affairs. During his diplomatic career, Bow served as Chargé d'affairs a.i. to

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followed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

and

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

. Bow considered his greatest accomplishment to be the

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, which he helped negotiate. Bow and his wife had four children. Bow died in 2005 and his wife died in 2012.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bow, Malcolm Norman 1918 births 2005 deaths Ambassadors of Canada to Haiti People from Regina, Saskatchewan Ambassadors of Canada to Cuba Ambassadors of Canada to Hungary Ambassadors of Canada to Czechoslovakia Ambassadors of Canada to Spain