Lester B. Pearson
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Lester B. Pearson 🇨🇦

Lester Bowles Pearson (Known as "Mike Pearson")
Fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1957)
Born Apr 23, 1897 🇨🇦 Newtonbrook (Toronto), Canada
Passed Away Dec 27, 1972 Ottawa, Canada
Lifespan 75 years old
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"Of all our dreams today, there is none more important, or so hard to realise, than that of peace in the world."

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Diplomat and Prime Minister who won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for creating United Nations Peacekeeping during the Suez Crisis, and introduced the Maple Leaf flag, Medicare, and the Canada Pension Plan.

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A WWI veteran and history professor, Pearson entered the diplomatic corps, rising to Minister of External Affairs. During the 1956 Suez Crisis, his diplomatic genius created the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), diffusing an imminent nuclear superpower confrontation and earning him the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize.

As Prime Minister (1963–1968), despite leading minority governments, Pearson instituted the defining social pillars of modern Canada: universal Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, student loans, the 40-hour work week, official bilingualism, and the adoption of the iconic Maple Leaf national flag in 1965.

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Maclaren Cemetery
Wakefield (Quebec), Canada
GPS: 45.6364, -75.9283
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