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| | Lester B. Pearson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Pearson is also the namesake of the Lester B. Pearson College in Victoria, British Columbia (one of the United World Colleges), and of the Lester B. Pearson School Board in Montreal. | | | There, Pearson announced that the new leader chosen by the Liberal party was Pierre Trudeau, a man who Pearson had recruited and made Minister of Justice in his cabinet. | | | Pearson appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada: |
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| | Biography of Lester Pearson |
| | Lester was the son of Edwin Arthur Pearson, a Methodist Minister, and Anne Sarah Bowles Pearson. | | | Lester Pearson was Canada's fourteenth Prime Minister, and foremost diplomat. | | | In June 1942, he was the Minister - Counselor, Canadian Legation in Washington, D.C. In July of 1944, Lester was promoted to Minister Plenipotentiary, Canadian Legation in Washington, D.C. In January 1958 to the spring of 1968, Lester was the Liberal Party Leader. |
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| | Pearson, Lester Bowles |
| | Pearson's attempts in his first term to conciliate Québec and the other provinces with "co-operative federalism" and "bilingualism and biculturalism" were superseded by a firm federal response to provincial demands and by the Québec government's attempts to usurp federal roles in international relations. | | | The Liberals were defeated, St. Laurent resigned as leader, and at a convention in January 1958 Pearson defeated Paul MARTIN to become leader. | | | Pearson was Canada's foremost diplomat and formulated its basic post-WWII foreign policy. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Lester Pearson |
| | Pearson attended public school and completed his college preparatory studies in Peterborough and in Hamilton, Ontario. | | | When the war ended, Pearson resumed his studies at Victoria College and received his bachelor's degree in history in 1919. | | | His father, Edwin Arthur Pearson, a Methodist minister, took his family along on his journeys as itinerant preacher through Ontario and western Canada. |
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| | Pearson-Biography-First Among Equals |
| | Pearson was elected Liberal leader and served in the Opposition during the Diefenbaker years. | | | Pearson died in 1972, but his "Liberal dynasty" lives on in his former Cabinet minister, Jean Chr&, our current prime minister. | | | Pearson served as first secretary at the Canadian High Commission in Britain from 1935 to 1941, and then moved to the Canadian Embassy in Washington in 1942. |
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| | Lester Bowles Pearson - Biography |
| | Pearson also headed the Canadian delegation to the UN from 1946 to 1956, being elected to the presidency of the Seventh Session of the General Assembly in 1952-1953. | | | Pearson drafted the speech in which Prime Minister St. Laurent proposed the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), signed the enabling treaty in 1949, headed the Canadian delegation to NATO until 1957, and functioned as chairman of the NATO Council in 1951-1952. | | | When the Liberals were defeated in the elections of 1957, Pearson relinquished his cabinet post but, accepting that of leader of the Opposition, began to rebuild the party. |
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| | Lester Bowles Pearson was born to Edwin Arthur Pearson (son of a minister and a Methodist minister himself) and Annie Sarah Bowles Pearson, in Newton Brook (now part of Toronto), Ontario, on April 23, 1897. | | | From 1973 until her death in 1990, his wife Maryon Pearson served as honorary chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Lester B. Pearson College. | | | He ranks Pearson as the fifth greatest Canadian Prime Minister, and his justification is as follows: "Acknowledging the range of obstacles put in his way, Pearson's achievements in office, including his survival, are the more impressive. |
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| | The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson |
| | Pearson retired from politics in 1968 at the age of 71. | | | Pearson had begun schooling at the University of Toronto in 1913, but left at the outbreak of World War I to enlist. | | | The secret to his success as a diplomat was realizing that any successful compromise must spare all parties involved from any humiliations, and he used his congeniality to disarm hostile negotiators and turn them into 'friends'. |
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| | Pearson, Lester B. -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Pearson, Lester B. politician, diplomat, and prime minister of Canada (1963–68), who was prominent as a mediator in international disputes. | | | In 1963 Sharp was elected to Parliament for Elington, and soon afterward Pearson appointed him minister of trade and commerce; in 1965 he became minister of finance. | | | in full Lester Bowles Pearson politician, diplomat, and prime minister of Canada (1963–68), who was prominent as a mediator in international disputes. |
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| | Lester Pearson |
| | Lester Pearson’s political star continued to shine, serving as Canada’s Ambassador to the United States, lat___ as Minister of External Affairs (1948-1957) and finally as Prime Minister (1963-1968). | | | Born to Irish parents, Lester received a balanced edu___ from his conservative father (a Methodist minister) and his m___ (noted for her liberalism). | | | In 1956, dur___ his term as Minister of External Affairs, Pearson orchestrated a solu___ to a potentially dangerous situ___ in the Middle E___. |
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| | L.B. Pearson> |
| | Pearson was responsible for persuading the leading powers to agree to the partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states in 1947. | | | In 1952-53, Pearson was president of the UN General Assembly. | | | In 1968, he resigned and retired from public life. |
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| | The Nobel Peace Prize 1957 - Presentation Speech |
| | From 1942 to 1946 Lester Pearson was in Washington, as I said, as Canadian minister and ambassador. | | | Pearson was elected chairman of the Political Committee, and the Special Committee on Palestine recommended that the British mandate over Palestine should be discontinued and that the country should be divided into a Jewish and an Arab state. | | | The Palestine problem was actually put to rest for some time |
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| | Lester Bowles Pearson Biography / Biography of Lester Bowles Pearson Biography Biography |
| | Pearson's diplomatic career kept him in Ottawa until 1935, when he was sent to London as first secretary to the Canadian High Commission, a post he held until 1941. | | | Pearson afterward returned to the university, graduating in 1919. | | | His education at the University of Toronto was interrupted by World War I, during which he served overseas in Egypt, Greece, and Great Britain. |
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| | Lester Bowles Pearson |
| | Pearson then became president of the UN General Assembly in 1952. | | | Pearson then resigned as Prime Minister in 1968. | | | Before taking office as prime minister, Pearson has won fame as an international statesman. |
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| | Lester Pearson’s Role in the UN & FAO |
| | Pearson, Lester B., Earnest A. Gross and Sir Patrick Dean, A Critical Evaluation of the United Nations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1961 | | | This process of national debate and public voting ultimately ranked Pearson as the 6th greatest Canadian. | | | Thordarson, Bruce, Lester Pearson: Diplomat and Politician, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974 |
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| | News and Events: Lester Bowles Pearson Canadian Bursary Program - Thomas M. Cooley Law School |
| | The Pearson Scholarships are Cooley's response to the call of our federal government to open the markets in the two countries," President Brennan continued. | | | Lansing, Michigan -- Thomas M. Cooley Law School, America's third largest law school, announces the creation of the Lester Bowles Pearson Canadian Bursary Program. | | | News and Events: Lester Bowles Pearson Canadian Bursary Program - Thomas M. Cooley Law School |
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| | CNEWS Politics |
| | Pearson announced his resignation in Dec. 1967 and, in Apr. 1968, was succeeded by Pierre Trudeau. | | | 8, 1963, the Liberals won 129 seats in the House of Commons, and Pearson became the leader of a minority government. | | | Lester Bowles Pearson was born at Newtonbrook, Ont., on Apr. 23, 1897. |
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| | The Lester B. Pearson |
| | Lester Bowles Pearson entered Victoria College in the fall of 1913 at the age of sixteen. | | | His father, a Methodist parson in Newtonbrook, Ontario, was also a Victoria College graduate. | | | He became the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 1958 and was elected Prime Minister of Canada, serving from 1963-68. |
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| | Lester Bowles Pearson |
| | Lester Pearson and the American dilemma (1980) by Peter Stursberg | | | a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations from 1948 to 1957, Pearson was president of the Seventh UN General Assembly (1952-53) | | | in the elections of 1963 the Liberal party won a majority, and Pearson became prime minister |
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| | North America, Canada, Society and Culture, History, Government, Prime Ministers, Pearson: Lester Bowles |
| | The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) : Library of Congress Citations | | | 50){ this.border=1;}" alt="Info for The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) : Library of Congress Citations" title="Info for The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) : Library of Congress Citations"> | | | Gravesite of Lester Pearson (1897-1972), Canada's fourteenth Prime Minister. |
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| | Who was Lester Pearson? |
| | Canada's fourteenth Prime Minister and foremost diplomat, Lester Bowles Pearson, was born on April 23, 1897 in Newtonbrook, Ontario. | | | From April 1963 to April 1968 Pearson was the Prime Minister of Canada. | | | Pearson was a star athlete and an excellent student who attended the University of Toronto and Oxford University. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Further Reading - Pearson, Lester Bowles |
| | The Presidents and the Prime Ministers: Washington and Ottawa Face to Face: The Myth of Bilateral Bliss, 1867-1982. | | | A solid account of Pearson's defusing of the Suez Crisis in 1956 and his consequent transition from career diplomat to prime minister of Canada. | | | The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester Pearson, 1949-1972. |
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| | Lester B. Pearson & The United Nations as Peacekeepers |
| | Pearson had been president, in 1952, of the United Nations General Assembly and later became Canada’s Prime Minister (1963-1968). | | | Lester B. Pearson and The United Nations as Peacekeepers | | | This was a world body with which Pearson, as a top Canadian diplomat, had close links from the beginning. |
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| | Lester Pearson: A NATO Wise Man |
| | Born to the family of a Methodist minister. | | | Was given the Lester is remembered for his role in creating the United Nations Peacekeeping Force. | | | Pearson calls 1956 the busiest and the most exciting of his career. |
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| | Pearson, Lester B. |
| | Lester Bowles Pearson - Pearson, Lester Bowles, 1897–1972, Canadian diplomat and political leader, b. | | | Lester B. Pearson Award - Awarded to the season's most outstanding player and named after the former diplomat, Nobel Peace... | | | Annual Awards - Voting for the Hart, Calder, Norris, Lady Byng, Selke, and Masterton Trophies is conducted after... |
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| | When Lester B. Pearson became Canada's 14th Prime Minister, he had already received the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations peace-keeping force during his term as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. | | | While Prime Minister, Pearson's government established the Canada Pension Plan, universal health care and the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. | | | Thanks to Pearson's initiatives at the United Nations, that flag is now recognized world wide as the symbol of a peace-loving nation. |
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| | Lester Pearson and the Dream of Unity - Stursberg, Peter |
| | This is the first of two volumes covering the political and diplomatic careers of Lester B. Pearson, Canada's fourteenth Prime Minister and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace. | | | Lester Pearson and the Dream of Unity - Stursberg, Peter | | | Keywords: FRENCH CANADIANS PEARSON LESTER BOWLES 1897 1972 SOCIAL SCIENCE ETHNOLOGY 0-385-13478-9 |
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| | Pearson, Lester Bowles |
| | Pearson graduated from the University of Toronto, and after studying in England he became a history teacher at his old university. | | | After serving in Greece as a stretcher-bearer, he went to London, England, where he was training to be a fighter pilot when a bus struck him, and he finished the war recovering from his injuries. | | | He was attending the University of Toronto when World War I broke out, and he enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. |
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| | Pearson, Lester Bowles |
| | As prime minister, he led the way to formulating a national medicare (health insurance) law. | | | Pearson served as president of the UN General Assembly 1952–53 and helped to create the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) that policed Sinai following the Egypt–Israel war of 1956. | | | He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1957 for playing a key role in settling the Suez Crisis of 1956 when as foreign minister 1948–57, he represented Canada at the United Nations (UN). |
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| | Rt. Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson Quiz |
| | Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson was Prime Minister from 1963-1968 | | | Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson was Prime Minister from 1963-1969 | | | Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson's job before he entered politics. |
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| | Lester Pearson, Mount |
| | Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) was prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. | | | Born in Toronto, he taught history at the University of Toronto for four years before joining the Department of External Affairs in 1928. |
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| | Canada's Flag |
| | Lester Bowles Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-1968 | | | But Prime Minister Lester Pearson believed that time had come for a national flag "which could not be mistaken for the emblem of any other country and which...would be a strong unifying force" for Canada. | | | For many veterans and their families, it was the banner under which Canada had gone to war. |
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| | Pearson-Speeches-Opening of Expo '67, April 27, 1967-First Among Equals |
| | Source: Pearson, Lester B. Notes for the Prime Minister's remarks at the opening of Expo 67 in Montreal. | | | By the time the gates of Expo are closed six months from now, its success will have made all Canadians prouder of our own country than ever before; and more conscious of the interdependence and the brotherhood of all men and all nations. |
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| | Pearson-Speeches-Toronto, October 15, 1964-First Among Equals |
| | All Canadians must actively support -- as a matter of individual responsibility -- policies designed to promote national confidence, national identity, national unity and national purpose; policies which will keep our union strong, our federation healthy and effective and our country one before the world. | | | Source: Pearson, Lester B. Excerpt from the address by Lester B. Pearson to the Empire Club. |
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| | Maryon Pearson |
| | Maryon Elspeth Pearson (1902 - 1991) era la esposa de Lester Bowles Pearson, el 14to primer ministro de Canadá. | | | Maryon Pearson también era conocido para su ingenio, haciendo un número de político famoso quips. | | | Maryon nato Elspeth cambiante, ella casó a Lester Pearson de agosto el 22 de 1925. |
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