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.[1]

During World War II Bow served with The Calgary Highlanders.[2] He was seconded by the British and posted to Myanmar[3] and India, eventually achieving the rank of major.[2] Returning to Britain in 1945, Bow proposed to Betty Roberts, a British aeronautics inspector at a Lancaster bomber factory.[2] The couple married in March of that year.[2]

After returning to Canada, Bow worked as a journalist for the Vancouver Province and completed his undergraduate degree.[2] In 1949 Bow joined the Department of External Affairs.[2]

During his diplomatic career, Bow served as Chargé d'affairs a.i. to Spain followed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia,[4] Hungary,[5] Cuba[6][7] and Haiti.[8] Bow considered his greatest accomplishment to be the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which he helped negotiate.[2]

Bow and his wife had four children.[2] Bow died in 2005 and his wife died in 2012.[2]