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Lester Bowles Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian politician, diplomat, statesman, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as MP for Algoma East, whose largest municipality was the then-new City of Elliot Lake.
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The airport is named in honour of Lester B. Pearson, who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968) and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his humanitarian work in peacekeeping. [7] Toronto Pearson is located 22.5 kilometres (14.0 mi) northwest of Downtown Toronto.
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The 1958 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was called to replace Liberal leader Louis St. Laurent, who had resigned as Prime Minister after the party's sudden defeat in the 1957 election. On the first ballot, former External Affairs minister Lester Pearson defeated former cabinet minister Paul Martin and Mayor of Portage la Prairie ...
The continued increase of air traffic at Toronto Pearson resulted in a 2013 decision by Transport Canada to proceed with the planning and construction of Toronto Pickering International Airport [32] (following a 2001 decision to simply revive plans for the airport), which would be approximately 50 km (31 mi) east of Toronto Pearson and handle ...
From left to right, with Pearson: Pierre Trudeau, John Turner and Jean Chrétien. All three would become Prime Ministers of Canada. Liberal leader and Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced on December 14, 1967, that he would be retiring in April 1968. [2] Pearson had been Liberal leader since 1958 and prime minister since 1963.
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the second-busiest airport in North America with 73,362,946 passengers in 2022 Mexico City International Airport, the busiest airport in North America outside the United States for the third year in a row In 2022, Montréal-Trudeau International Airport saw the largest recovery in passenger traffic with a 207.1 percent increase in passengers over 2021.