Tale Eighteen

This 1914 patriotic play The Courtship of Miss Canada included a young Harold Davis representing Norway. Upon graduating from the University of Toronto, he entered the public service and from there the foreign service. He was posted in London, Washington, and New York.

During the Second World War, Harold served as adjutant to the exiled King of Norway. Once the war was over, Mackenzie King recommended his appointment as Canada’s first ambassador to Norway in 1946 serving until 1952. He went on to serve as ambassador to Iceland and Guinea before retiring in 1968. He died in 1979 in Ottawa.