Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, 1981-3-16
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Reference number: MC2806-565
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Scope and Content
Canada's pleading with the United States to take conservation of fish stocks seriously is captured both in the title and cartoon of Alexander Haig and Mark MacGuigan holding a fishing pole with just the skeleton of a fish on the hook.
Title
Fishing Entreaty
Note
Published in "Cartoons", Saint John, NB: Telegraph-Journal, c1981
Persons
Alexander Haig
- Born Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr., December 2, 1924
- Military Assistant to the Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs under US President Henry Kissinger, 1960 to 1970
- Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs under Richard Nixon, 1970
- Appointed as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, 1981
- Resigned in late 1982
- In 1981, after the March 30 assassination attempt on Reagan, Haig asserted before reporters that "I'm in control here" as a result of Reagan's hospitalization
Mark MacGuigan
- Born in Charlottetown, PEI, 1931
- Liberal
- Law professor and dean at the University of Windsor, [c. 1958 to 1968]
- Liberal Party candidate to the Canadian House of Commons, 1968
- Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1980 to1982
- Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 1982 to 1984