Speech

Oh, hello! Welcome! ..... Let’s get back in time, at how it all bagan, for a
fascinating journey about Bilateral Relationships between Romania and Canada.
You won’t regret it! Are you ready to hear the story?
It all started, a long time ago, exactly in 1895 when Clifford Sifton (the canadian
Minister of Interior that times) visited a region from our country, called Bukovina.
Later after that clannish event, Joseph W. Boyle (a canadian adventurer) served
the king and queen of Romania during World War I, helping to protect the
country from the Central Powers and to operate Romania’s railways. In 1919
formal relatiopnships between Canada and Romania were established, when the
General Consulate of Romania was entrenched in Montreal by Vasile Stoica
(romanian diplomat).
Bilateral relations at embassy level were initiated on April 3, 1967. Canada
commissioned its first resident ambassador in Romania, Bruce MacGillivary
Williams, in December 1967. The Ambassy of Romania was opened in
Ottawa in 1970. The president of Romania at that period of time, visited the
nuclear central Gentilly II situated in Montreal in 1985. In 1991, the General
Consulate of Romania started to operate in Toronto. The Ambassador of
Canada in Bucharest is Kevin Hamilton (appointed June 2016).