John Price Erichsen-Brown

Born in Galt, John Price Erichsen-Brown graduated from the University of Toronto Schools in 1924, the University of Toronto in 1928. He served as Curator of the Hart House Library at the University of Toronto from 1926-28. He attended Osgoode Hall Law School, served as a Solicitor with the Ontario Supreme Court and he was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1931.

Erichsen-Brown practiced law in Toronto and Ottawa before joining the Department of External Affairs in 1948. He was a member of the Canadian Delegation to the United Nations (1950-52), Councillor in the Canadian Embassy in Belgium (1953), and Chargé d’Affaires, Warsaw, Poland (1958). He was appointed Canadian Commissioner on the International Supervisory Commission for Vietnam in 1958. In 1960 he was posted to New York as Consul.

After retiring from the Department of External Affairs, Erichsen-Brown became a senior solicitor with the Ontario Water Resources Commission. In 1972 he went to Afghanistan as a legal representative with a Canadian engineering company building a water and sewage system in Kabul.

He was also a beef farmer, forester, nut grower, naturalist, painter, photographer and chess master.