Records of Ivan Head on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Ivan Head in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ivan Head and the Head Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Head Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Head family tree.

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Head Family Tree Databases

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Head Forums

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Miscellaneous Head Databases

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Some Famous People called Ivan Head

Ivan Head

Ivan Leigh Head (July 28, 1930 – November 1, 2004) was a Canadian lawyer, legal scholar, and civil servant. He was an influential foreign policy adviser of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1952 from the University of Alberta. He was called to the Bar of Alberta in 1953 and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1974. He practiced law in Calgary from 1953 to 1959. He was then awarded Harvard University's Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship and received a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in 1960.

From 1960 to 1963, he was a foreign service officer with the Department of External Affairs working in Ottawa, Ontario, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 1963, he was appointed an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. He was appointed a full Professor in 1967. In 1967, he was an associate counsel to Pierre Trudeau, the Minister of Justice, for constitutional matters. In 1968, he was the legal assistant to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In 1970, he was named special assistant with special responsibility for advice on foreign policy and conduct of foreign relations.

From 1978 to 1991, he was the president of the International Development Research Centre. In 1991, he was appointed a Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia and was the founding director of UBC's Liu Institute for Global Issues.

He co-authored with Pierre Trudeau the book The Canadian Way: Shaping Canada’s Foreign Policy 1968–1984 (McClelland & Stewart, 1995, ) and was the author of On a Hinge of History: The Mutual Vulnerability of South and North (University of Toronto Press, ).

In 1990, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

He was married to Ann and had four children. He died of cancer in Vancouver in 2004.

Source: Ivan Head, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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