H. H. Wrong

Humphrey Hume Wrong trained as a historian at Toronto and Oxford and taught at the University of Toronto before entering diplomacy. His Washington work during the Second World War centred on securing a Canadian voice in Allied decisions. He argued that representation should reflect what a country contributed and pressed for Canadian participation in bodies concerned with production, resources, and food. ¹

Wrong also worked on implementing the Ogdensburg Agreement and Hyde Park Declaration, which organized defence and industrial cooperation with the United States. As ambassador from 1946, he negotiated Canada’s part in the North Atlantic Treaty. ¹