L. Dana Wilgress, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian diplomat
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Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
About L. Dana Wilgress
- Leolyn Dana Wilgress, (October 20, 1892 – July 21, 1969) was a Canadian diplomat. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Henry T.
- and Helene M.
- (Empev), Wilgress was educated in Vancouver, Yokohama Japan, Victoria and at McGill University.
- He married Olga Buergin on June 4, 1919 and they had three children. He was a Junior Trade Commissioner in 1914, Canadian Trade Commissioner, Omsk, Russia in 1916 and Trade Commissioner in Vladivostok in 1918.
- In early 1922, he was Trade Commissioner in Hamburg, Germany.
- He became Director of the Commercial Intelligence Service in Ottawa in 1932; was an adviser at the Ottawa Imperial Conference in 1932, an adviser at the World Economic Conference at London in 1933; a negotiator in Washington for Canada–U.S.
- Trade Agreement, 1936–1938.
- He was appointed Minister to the U.S.S.R.
- for the period 1942–1943. He was Canadian ambassador to the USSR from 1944 to 1946, and High Commissioner to London from 1949 to 1952.
- From 1952 to 1953 he was Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- He was Ambassador and permanent representative to the North Atlantic Council of NATO from 1953 to 1958, and representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1953 to 1958. In 1953 he received a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa from the University of British Columbia and in 1967 was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
- Wilgress died in 1969, and was interred in the Capital Memorial Gardens in Ottawa.
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