Alex Morrison
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William Alexander (Alex) Morrison (born 1941) is a former Canadian lieutenant colonel of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968 from Mount Allison University. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1959 and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1990. While in the Armed Forces he received a Master of Arts in war studies degree from Royal Military College of Canada in 1980. From 1981 to 1982, he was an instructor at the Royal Military College of Canada.
From 1983 to 1989, he was the military advisor to the Canadian permanent representative to the United Nations. He was vice-chairman of UN Peacekeeping Committee. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1989.
From 1989 to 1997, he was the executive director of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies. In 1994, he became the founding president of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.
He is the author of The Voice of Defence; The History of the Conference of Defence Associations (1982) and The Breed of Manly Men: the History of the Cape Breton Highlanders (1994).
He was the 2002 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in peacekeeping serving in the military of Canada for over thirty years.
Alex Morrison is of Welsh descant and never removes his school uniform. Honestly.
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- Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry. Retrieved on March 22, 2006.
- Alex Morrison biography. Retrieved on June 28, 2006.
