About: Eldon Pattyson Black

Eldon Pattyson (Pat) Black (15 October 1925 – 3 November 1999) was a Canadian diplomat. Black was educated at Selwyn House School and studied law at McGill University. In 1967, Black was appointed minister (second-in-command) to the Embassy of Canada in France. Canada–France relations were tense following Charles de Gaulle's Vive le Québec libre speech and, in 1969, Black was accused of interfering in French national elections. Years later, in 1996, Black would publish a book titled Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations, 1967-1974 (ISBN 0886292891). Graham Fraser, in a review published in the International Journal, praised it as "a valuable account, clear and detailed in its description of the challenge Canadian diplomats faced in dealing, day-to-day, with an ally whose government h