Malcolm Norman Bow

Malcolm (Mac) Norman Bow (1918–2005) was a Canadian diplomat. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and educated at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia. His father, Malcolm Ross Bow, was a medical doctor and Alberta deputy minister of health for 25 years.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Cv5kAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TogNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1052,2099950 | title=Dr. Malcolm Bow dies in hospital | work=Edmonton Journal | date=6 July 1982 | accessdate=20 April 2013 | page=C8}}

During World War II Bow served with The Calgary Highlanders.{{cite news | url=http://theglobeandmail.com/news/national/diplomats-wife-lived-life-of-adventure-with-postings-round-the-globe/article4480045/?service=mobile | title=Diplomat’s wife lived life of adventure, with postings round the globe | work=The Globe and Mail | date=14 August 2012 | accessdate=20 April 2013 | author=Martin, Sandra}} He was seconded by the British and posted to Myanmar{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=huxkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TYENAAAAIBAJ&pg=1233,1395410 | title=City Officer in Burma Shows Natives Hoop Game | work=Edmonton Journal | date=16 May 1945 | accessdate=20 April 2013 | pages=9}} and India, eventually achieving the rank of major. Returning to Britain in 1945, Bow proposed to Betty Roberts, a British aeronautics inspector at a Lancaster bomber factory. The couple married in March of that year.

After returning to Canada, Bow worked as a journalist for the Vancouver Province 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 Spain followed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia,{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qmpkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zXwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2043,39062 | title=Speaker given party | work=Calgary Herald | date=18 September 1967 | agency=Canadian Press | accessdate=20 April 2013 | pages=7}} Hungary,{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Rt5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XjwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2537,5062343 | title=Official presented | work=Leader-Post | date=25 May 1965 | agency=Associated Press | accessdate=20 April 2013 | pages=15}} Cuba{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtTy9wIX3l4C&pg=PT124 | title=Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World | publisher=Harper Collins | author=Wright, Robert | year=2010 | pages=124 | isbn=9781554689316}}{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UVY_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=wVIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4811,2551910 | title=Castro 'friendly' towards Canadians | work=Windsor Star | date=23 January 1974 | agency=Canadian Press | accessdate=20 April 2013 | pages=4}} and Haiti.{{cite news | url=https://newspaperarchive.com/lethbridge-herald/1975-08-26/page-36 | title=Canadian diplomats named by minister | work=Lethbridge Herald | date=26 August 1975 | agency=Canadian Press | accessdate=20 April 2013 | pages=36}} Bow considered his greatest accomplishment to be the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 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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{{succession box|title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Haiti|

before=William McKenzie Wood|

after=Wilfrid Marcel Agnès|

years=1974-1975}}

{{succession box|title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cuba|

before=Kenneth Charles Brown|

after=James Edward Hyndman|

years=1973-1975}}

{{succession box|title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Hungary|

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after=Thomas Blake Burrill Wainman-Wood|

years=1965-1968}}

{{succession box|title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to CzechoslovakiaAn Embassy was established in Czechoslovakia in April 1965.|

before=John Alexander McCordick|

after=Thomas Blake Burrill Wainman-Wood|

years=1964-1968}}

{{succession box|title=Chargé d'Affaires a.i. to Spain|

before=Léon Mayrand|

after=Jean Bruchési|

years=1958-1964}}

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