Norman Berlis

Norman Frederick Henderson Berlis (8 April 1914 – 10 May 2003) was a Canadian diplomat.[1][2] He was Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva then High Commissioner to Tanganyika,[3] Tanzania[4] then Uganda.[4] He was also ambassador to Kenya[4] and High Commissioner to Zanzibar and then the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland,[5] Austria[6] (where, since 1971, Canadian Ambassadors to Austria have been accredited to the Office of the United Nations at Vienna), and to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization then to Denmark.[7]

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Leolyn Dana Wilgress		 Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva
1948-1952 		Succeeded by
Paul Émile Renaud
Preceded by
Position created		 High Commissioner to Tanganyika
1962-1964 		Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
Position created		 High Commissioner to Tanzania
1962-1965 		Succeeded by
Allan Sydney McGill
Preceded by
James Wall		 High Commissioner to Uganda
1962-1965 		Succeeded by
Karl Johansen
Preceded by
Robert Wallace McLaren		 High Commissioner to Uganda
1963- 		Succeeded by
Allan Sydney McGill
Preceded by
Alan Pittman McLaine		 Ambassador to Kenya
1964-1965 		Succeeded by
Allan Sydney McGill
Preceded by
Position created		 High Commissioner to Zanzibar
1964- 		Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
John Arnold Irwin		 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland
1965-1967 		Succeeded by
Pamela Ann McDougall
Preceded by
John Alexander McCordick		 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria[8]
1969-1973 		Succeeded by
John Alan Beesley
Preceded by
Donald Macalister Cornett		 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Denmark
1975-1979 		Succeeded by
Marion Adams Macpherson

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Norman F. H. Berlis". Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie. 13 May 2003. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Norman Berlis ECOSOC Representative Canada". Current World Leaders: Biography and News. 17: 5. 1974.
  3. ↑ "Tanganyika Welcomes Envoy, 'Much To Learn From Canada'". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. 3 May 1962. p. 4. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone (1965). Canadian Geographical Journal. 70-71: 180 https://books.google.com/books?id=gthYAAAAMAAJ. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Poland Greets Canadian Group". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. 18 July 1966. p. 8. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  6. ↑ External Affairs. 22-23. Canadian Department of External Affairs. 1970. p. 389.
  7. ↑ "'Mr. Europe' ambassador to West Germany". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Canadian Press. 16 July 1975. p. 16. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  8. ↑ Since 1971, Canadian Ambassadors to Austria have been accredited to the Office of the United Nations at Vienna, and to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.


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