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Although the flag debate had been going on for a long time prior, it officially began on June 15, 1964, when Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson proposed his plans for a new flag in the House of Commons. The debate lasted more than six months, bitterly dividing [2] the people in the process.
A flag design created by Alan Beddoe, and dubbed the Pearson Pennant, being Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's favoured design. In 1961, Leader of the Opposition Lester Pearson asked John Ross Matheson to begin researching what it would take for Canada to have a new flag. By April 1963, Pearson was prime minister in a minority government and ...
Pearson instituted a new national flag, the Maple Leaf flag, ... (NHLPA) was known as the Lester B. Pearson Award from its inception in 1971 to 2010, ...
The flag initially preferred by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was a flag designed by Alan Beddoe, with 2 blue bars at each end and a red set of 3 maple leaves connected by one stem in the center, and it became known as the "Pearson Pennant". [17]
The Canadian Pearson Pennant, the flag design suggested by then-Prime Minister w:Lester Pearson. The original artwork was drafted by artist Alan Brookman Beddoe. Date: 16 February 2006 (original upload date) Source: No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author: No machine-readable author provided.
Diefenbaker was succeeded by Lester B. Pearson in 1963, at a time of increasing political unrest in much of the Western world. In Canada the largest crises involved provincial rights, especially in Quebec, where nationalism had been increasing and was on the verge of violent explosion. Pearson recognized Quebec to be a "nation within the nation".
March 23 – George Stanley first describes and sketches the proposal for Canada's new flag that is eventually accepted March 26 – The White Paper on Defence is tabled. March 27 – Several towns in coastal British Columbia , including Prince Rupert , Tofino , Port Alberni and Zeballos , suffer damage from tsunamis associated with the Good ...
Lester Pearson Was appointed as prime minister after his party won that year's federal election. 1964 Lester Pearson Oversaw as prime minister the debate on Canada's flag. 1965 Lucien Rivard: Convicted drug smuggler who escaped from prison and remained at large for 136 days. 1966 John Diefenbaker