Series includes events and individuals associated with the career of Reid, particularly as Deputy Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs 1948-1952, High Commissioner for Canada to India 1952-1957, Canadian Ambassador to Germany 1958-1962, Director of World Bank Operations for South Asia and the Middle East 1962-1965, and as the first Principal of Glendon College, York University, Toronto, 1965-1969. The following events are documented: fifth conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Banff, Alta., 1933; opening plenary session, Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, London, England, 1946; Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs, Colombo, Ceylon, 1950; presenting credentials as High Commissioner for Canada to India, New Delhi, 1952; signing of the Canada-India Atomic Reactor Agreement, New Delhi, 1956; presenting credentials as Canadian Ambassador to Germany, Bonn, 1958; meeting of executive directors of the World Bank, Washington, 1965; opening of Glendon College, York University, Toronto, 1966; addressing the Ontario Secondary School Headmasters Council, 1968; investiture as a Companion of the Order of Canada, Ottawa, 1971; Canadian delegation to the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter, San Francisco, 1985.
The series also includes photographs of the following individuals: Homi Bhabha, Willi Brandt, Christopher Brown, Floyd Chalmers, Jorat Chopra, Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi, Akhter Hamid, Theodor Heuss, Mel Jack, James Kharas, Christine Legault, René Levesque, Stephen Lewis, Heinrich Luebke, J.J. McCardle, Jean-Pierre Maisonneuve, Paul Martin, Krishna Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mrs. Pandit Nehru, Madeline O'Donnell, Lester Pearson, Maryon Pearson, N.R. Pillai, Rajendra Prasad, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Robert Reford, Escott Reid, Ruth Reid, Jean-Paul St. Laurent, Louis St. Laurent, Adlai Stevenson.
Photographs by unknown photographers and by the following: Associated Screen News Ltd., Banff, Alta.; Central Press Photos Ltd., London, England; Department of National Defence; Gopal Chitra Kuteer, New Delhi; Information Department, Government of Pakistan; John Evans Photography Ltd., Ottawa; Rolf Koehler, Berlin; Landesbildstelle, Berlin; Ronald M. Leiberman; Arthur Menzies; Gilbert A. Milne, Toronto; Ottawa Citizen/Rod McIvor; Photo Wimmer, Berlin; Press Information Bureau, Government of India; Pressephoto Weingart, Bonn; Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, Bonn; Punjab Photo Service, New Delhi; Republic News Pictures, New Delhi; P.N. Sharma, New Delhi; The Citizen, Ottawa; The Telegram, Toronto; United Nations Association in Canada; Mrs. Homai Vyarawalla, New Delhi; Robert Waller.
