Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Sat 12 July 1986

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/8
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/20, covering 1986, can be read here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Saturday 12 July 1986

0715

Hair

0820-0900

Meeting with businessmen in Hotel Vancouver [listed in conversation record by Nigel Wicks in PREM19/1681 f29: Jim Pattison (Chairman of Expo 86), Bill Harris (Barclays Bank (Canada)), David Culver (Alcan), Ray Addington (Kelly Douglas), Robert Alexander (Microtel), Tony Kirkby (BP (Canada)), Donald Cormie (Principal Group), Allan Taylor (Royal Bank of Canada), Bruce Pepper (Chairman, Vancouver Board of Trade), Bill Hopper (Petro Canada), Claude Taylor (Air Canada), Frank Robertson (Woodwards), Peter Saunders (Versatile Corporation), Neville Gibson (Grosvenor Estates), David Radler (Argus Corporation), Vinod Sood (Finning Tractor and Equipment), Dr Michael Walker (The Fraser Institute), James Matkin (Business Council of British Columbia)]

0920

Depart Hotel for Expo site

0930

Arrive UK Pavilion.

Visit Pavilion. Meet British youth; present Sunbird Yacht

1004

Depart UK Pavilion

1019

Arrive EC Pavilion

1030

Board Motor Launch

1040

Arrive Plaza of Nations

1055

National Day Ceremony begins

1125

Depart for BC Pavilion

1140

Talks with Premier Bennett [listed in conversation record PREM19/1681 f32: Premier Bill Bennett; Dr Norman Spector (Deputy Minister); Sir Derek Day (British High Commissioner to Canada); Nigel Wicks]

Exchange of gifts

Brief look at Pavilion

1200

Depart BC Pavilion for Canadian Club (at the Expo site)

1215

Join Luncheon guests in the Canadian Club

1240

Presentation of gift by Commissioners General

1245

Lunch

1340

Depart for Canada Place

1345

Visit Canadian Pavilion

1415

Depart for Oakridge Shopping Centre

1435

Arrive Oakridge

Depart

1535

Arrive BREL

Ride in Railbus

Ride in Leyland bus

1605

Depart CN Pavilion

1610

Arrive Media Centre (Robson Square)

Press Conference

1642

Depart Media Centre for Hotel

1730