Lester Bowles Pearson

Liberal

Nobel Peace Prize

His statue on Parliament Hill

The L.B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre

LESTER B. PEARSON COLLEGE

Term: Apr. 22, 1963-Apr. 20, 1968

Age on becoming PM: 65

Birth: Apr. 23, 1897 Newton Brook, Ontario. Married with 2 children. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. President 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. See Nobel site. External Affairs Building and the Toronto National Airport named after him. 

Death: at age 75, Dec. 27, 1972, of cancer ; buried in Maclaren Cemetery, Wakefield, Quebec  See: Grave sites of the Prime Ministers

Lester B. Pearson's Role in the Formation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and in Other United Nations Activities

The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972)

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