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The Lester B. Pearson School Board is an English school board that was created in 1998 [2] when 8 previous school boards joined. It oversees 39 elementary schools, 12 secondary schools, 2 adult education centres and 4 vocational training centres, and 3 International Language Centres in which more than 20,000 students are enrolled and a territory from Verdun westward to the Ontario border. [2]
Lester B. Pearson committed Canada to peacekeeping on November 2, 1956 - from on the Ottawa Peacekeeping Monument. The Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre was created as an offshoot of the now-defunct Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies and became an independent organisation in its own right in 2001.
Lester B. Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former prime minister of Canada, was the driving force behind the founding of Pearson College UWC. After retiring from public life, Pearson became interested in the United World Colleges movement. At that time, only one United World College existed—Atlantic College in Wales, established in ...
The school acquired its most prominent faculty member in 1968 with the appointment of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson as a lecturer. The newly opened school was a natural fit for Pearson, who had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for trying (without significant impact) to end the Suez conflict. Senator Paterson later contended that the ...
Lester B. Pearson Garden for Peace and Understanding, E.J. Pratt Library in the University of Toronto, completed in 2004 [63] Lester B. Pearson Place, completed in 2006, is a four-storey affordable housing building in Newtonbrook, Toronto, near his place of birth, and adjacent to Newtonbrook United Church.
Lester B. Pearson's newest program is the Health and Wellness Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM). It is a new initiative from the Ministry of Education. This program allows students to acquire technical knowledge and skills that will assist them in entering a future career of their choice.
Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 1974 [21] UWC South East Asia , two campuses: one founded 1971, joined UWC 1975, and another built in 2008; Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa (Mbabane, Eswatini), founded 1963, joined UWC 1981; UWC-USA (Montezuma, New Mexico), 1982
The school has offered the French Immersion program since 2003 and in the following year of September 2004, Lester B. Pearson became a fully accredited International Baccalaureate World School [3] Lester B. Pearson High School is one of the five schools in Calgary to be offering the International Baccalaureate Programme in English, the school ...