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Lester Bowles Pearson PC OM CC OBE (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian politician, diplomat, statesman, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party from 1963 to 1968.
The Lester B. Pearson Civic Centre was located in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada, It was a community arts and theatre center that also housed community offices.Locals commonly refer to it as “the Civic Centre.” [1] The building originally housed the Nordic Hotel, built when the town was first opening its mines. [2]
Bernard Ostry interviewed and former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in this series. Episodes featured this interview footage combined with historic photographs and other film footage of Pearson. [1]
The flag proposed by Pearson, referred to as "the Pearson Pennant", was designed by Alan Beddoe. [3] Pearson sought to produce a flag which embodied history and tradition, but he also wanted to excise the Union Jack as a reminder of Canada's heritage and links to the United Kingdom. Hence, the issue was not whether the maple leaf was pre ...
The Nineteenth Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. It governed Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, including all of the 26th, and 27th Canadian Parliaments. The government was formed by the Liberal Party of Canada.
The NAC was one of a number of projects launched by the government of Lester B. Pearson to commemorate Canada's 1967 centenary. It opened its doors to the public for the first time on 31 May 1969, at a cost of C$46 million. [4] The site at one time was home to Ottawa City Hall, and the city donated the land to the federal government.
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.
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 ...