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Canada’s High Commission in London, 1880

Canada House on Trafalgar Square, London, photographed in 2010.
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In 1880, Canada became the first country of the British Empire to establish a high commission in London, mainly to promote trade and immigration, with former finance minister Sir Alexander Galt as the first high commissioner. Canada’s oldest diplomatic posting moved in 1925 to Canada House on Trafalgar Square, now a symbol of Canada in the British capital.

Scope & context

The high commission’s founding and home, not Canada’s wider foreign service.

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