"Lester B. Pearson Lester Bowles ""Mike"" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965. During Pearson's time as Prime Minister, his Liberal minority governments introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada,"
"of a group of Delegates who advocated for Confederation with Canada. In 1947, he joined the Ottawa Delegation, which visited Parliament Hill to negotiate the Terms of Union for Confederation with Canada. The delegations members (With their districts) were: From 1959 to 1960, Burry served as President of the Newfoundland Conference of the United Church. Lester Burry Lester L. Burry (1898–1977) born Safe Harbour, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Lester Burry was baptized Methodist in 1898 and ordained a minister by the Newfoundland Conference of the Methodist Church in 1924. The Newfoundland Conference of the Methodist Church entered into union with the"
"Lester Burry Lester L. Burry (1898–1977) born Safe Harbour, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Lester Burry was baptized Methodist in 1898 and ordained a minister by the Newfoundland Conference of the Methodist Church in 1924. The Newfoundland Conference of the Methodist Church entered into union with the United Church of Canada at the time of its inception in 1925, although the Dominion of Newfoundland did not enter into confederation with Canada until 1949 Burry was the National Convention Delegate for Labrador from 1946 to 1948. He was the first politician ever elected to represent Labrador. During the National Convention, he was one"
"both state houses. Notable military people include Brevet Major Holman Melcher (1862), as well as Medal of Honor recipients Frederick Hayes (1861), Josiah Chase (1861), Joseph F. Warren (1862), Lewis Millet (1943), Aaron Daggett (1860), and James Porter (1863). Bates alumni in business, finance, and economics include: General Mills CEO Robert Kinney (1939), Fidelity Fund managing director Barry Greenfield (1956), Merrill Lynch CFO Joseph Willit (1973), Japonica Partners CEO Paul Kazarian (1978), L Catterton CEO Michael Chu (1980), Cubist Pharmaceuticals CEO Michael Bonney (1980), National Bank of Canada CEO Louis Vachon (1983), and Affiliated Managers Group CFO Darrell Crate (1989)."
"investments in insurance, trust services, real estate and investment services. He was a director of Bank of Montreal, Domtar, Murphy Oil, Quebecor and Dale-Ross Holdings. Lorne Campbell Webster Lorne Campbell Webster (September 30, 1871 – September 27, 1941) was a financier and political figure in Quebec. He sat for Stadacona division in the Senate of Canada from 1920 to 1941. He was born in Quebec City and educated at Quebec High School and Montmagny College. He entered the family fuel oil business and later founded or bought many companies. Of note, Canadian Oil Companies Ltd. during the Great Depression. He"
"longtime friend Norah Michener. They had one son, Geoffrey, and one daughter, Patricia. Geoffrey was married to former Canadian Senator Landon Pearson. Geoffrey and Landon Pearson's daughter is ""USA Today"" journalist Patricia Pearson (not to be confused with her aunt, of the same name, who did not maintain a public career). Maryon Pearson Maryon Elspeth Pearson (née Moody; December 13, 1901 – December 26, 1989) was the wife of Lester Bowles Pearson, the 14th Prime Minister of Canada. Maryon and Lester Pearson married on August 22, 1925. They met at the University of Toronto, where he was a teacher and"
"Charles Ora Card Charles Ora Card (November 5, 1839 – September 9, 1906) was the founder of the town of Cardston, Alberta, the first Mormon settlement in Canada. He has been referred to as ""Canada's Brigham Young"". Card founded Cardston in 1887—in what was then part of the Northwest Territories—under the direction of John Taylor, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). This was motivated in large part by strained relations the LDS Church was then experiencing with the federal United States government over the church practice of plural marriage in Utah Territory and"
"Pearson College UWC Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (Pearson College UWC) is one of seventeen schools and colleges around the world in the UWC (United World Colleges) movement. It is named after the late Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson, winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, and an early champion of the College. The mission of the UWC movement and of the school is to """"make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future"""". The college follows the International Baccalaureate curriculum, and incorporates an experiential education programme, covering"
"James Stoll James Lewis Stoll (January 18, 1936 – December 8, 1994) was a Unitarian Universalist minister who became the first ordained minister of an established denomination in the United States or Canada to come out as gay. He did so at the annual Continental Conference of Student Religious Liberals on September 5, 1969 at the La Foret Conference Center near Colorado Springs, Colorado. He led the effort that convinced the Unitarian Universalist Association to pass the first-ever gay rights resolution in 1970. He founded the first counseling center for gays and lesbians in San Francisco. In the 1970s he"
"Robert Lester (politician) Robert Lester (ca 1746 – July 12, 1807) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Galway, Ireland around 1746 and came to the town of Quebec around 1770. He became a merchant there, importing cloth and spirits, exporting wheat, supplying provisions to the army and providing small loans to individuals. He served in the militia as a captain during the American invasion of 1775-6. Lester was among those lobbying for a representative assembly and, in 1792, he was elected to the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada for the Lower Town of"
"still in office. His brother Edmund represented Lennox in the House of Commons of Canada. Augustus Hooper Augustus Frederick Garland Hooper (1814-December 30, 1866) was a merchant, timber dealer and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Devonshire, England in 1814 and came to Quebec City with his family in 1819. In 1843, he moved to Newburgh and established the firm A & D Hooper with his brother, Douglas. In 1861, he was elected to the 7th Parliament of the Province of Canada, representing the Counties of Lennox & Addington. He had been reeve in Camden Township, and"
"Lorne Campbell Webster Lorne Campbell Webster (September 30, 1871 – September 27, 1941) was a financier and political figure in Quebec. He sat for Stadacona division in the Senate of Canada from 1920 to 1941. He was born in Quebec City and educated at Quebec High School and Montmagny College. He entered the family fuel oil business and later founded or bought many companies. Of note, Canadian Oil Companies Ltd. during the Great Depression. He died in office at the age of 69. A grandson also named Lorne Webster was likewise ambitious, forming his own company Prenor Group which had"
"against this idea, including Louis-Joseph Papineau. Robert Nelson was made General of the army and elected future President of the Republic of Lower Canada. On February 28, 1838, Nelson encamped at Alburg, Vermont with some 300 men. He proclaimed the independence of the Republic of Lower Canada and distributed copies of a declaration of independence. Soon after, they were arrested by the U.S. Army for violation of the law of neutrality of the United States. A jury, sympathetic to the Patriotes cause, acquitted him and others. After this failed attempt, Robert Nelson and other insurrectionists decided to take the time"
"William Stephen Bullock William Stephen Bullock (3 August 1865 – 13 November 1936) was a Canadian Baptist minister, businessman, and politician. Born in Sainte-Pudentienne near Shefford, Canada East, the son of William Henry Bullock, a farmer, and Hanna Chartier, Bullock studied at the mission of Grande-Ligne, the Montreal Normal School, McGill University, and Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts. He ordained a Baptist minister in Ottawa on 18 February 1892. He ministered in Ottawa, Maskinongé and Saint Pudentienne until 1907. He then worked as a manager and secretary of the Stanley Tool Company of Canada Limited. He was the founder"
"Electoral history of Lester B. Pearson This article is the Electoral history of Lester B. Pearson, the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada. A Liberal, he served one term as Prime Minister (1963–1968). He led the Liberal Party in four general elections, losing two (1958 and 1962) to John Diefenbaker, and winning two (1963 and 1965), defeating Diefenbaker. Both of his victories resulted in hung parliaments and he formed two minority governments. He retired in 1968 and was succeeded by Pierre Trudeau. Pearson stood for election to the House of Commons of Canada eight times, all for the riding of Algoma"
"of Canada in Schefferville in the presence of seven government and company officials on September 7, 1959. Following his death and the subsequent election of a Liberal government under Jean Lesage in 1960, Quebec entered a period later termed the Quiet Revolution (""Révolution tranquille""), a decisive movement away from the conservative policies of Duplessis and toward a secular social democracy. Duplessis has not been without his loyal defenders. Conrad Black's 1977 encomium, ""Duplessis"", painted a sympathetic portrait of the man as a transitional figure towards modernism, and the victim of partisan attack and personal malady (Black revealed, for instance, that"
"Lestock Graham DesBrisay Lestock Graham DesBrisay (September 3, 1920 – 1988) was a Canadian businessman and a politician in the Province of New Brunswick. He served as the Governor of the Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce from 1958 through 1959. DesBrisay was born in 1920 in Campbellton. Almost always referred to as ""L.G. DesBrisay"", in the 1960 New Brunswick general election, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the Liberal Party candidate in the Moncton City riding. He was immediately appointed by new Premier Louis Robichaud to the Cabinet as Minister of Finance. Lestock G. DesBrisay was reelected in"
"of St. Sylvester by Pope Pius IX in 1855. His last name is often mistakingly written in one word (Lafontaine or LaFontaine), the correct spelling being ""La Fontaine"", as in ""Jean de La Fontaine"", the writer. During the 1840s, Willson continued his association with the Reform Party; he was, for example, the campaign manager in the area for both Robert Baldwin and Louis LaFontaine, the ""Fathers of Responsible Government"" and first elected premiers of the province. It was the Children of Peace who ensured the election of Montreal lawyer Louis La Fontaine as their representative in Upper Canada. Willson argued"
"Louis Lacoste Louis Lacoste (April 3, 1798 – November 26, 1878) was a Quebec notary and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1878. He was born in Boucherville in 1798. He studied law and became a notary, practicing in Boucherville. In 1834, he was elected to represent the county of Chambly in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, serving until 1838. He supported Louis-Joseph Papineau and was arrested in December 1837; he was released in July 1838. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Chambly"
"established the first hospice on Maui. He was president of the San Francisco chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1990s. He died at the age of 58 from complications of heart and lung disease, exacerbated by obesity and a lifelong smoking habit. James Stoll James Lewis Stoll (January 18, 1936 – December 8, 1994) was a Unitarian Universalist minister who became the first ordained minister of an established denomination in the United States or Canada to come out as gay. He did so at the annual Continental Conference of Student Religious Liberals on September 5, 1969 at the"
"23, 1845. Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, second son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and later Lord Stanley of Preston, was the 6th Governor General of Canada, in office from 11 June 1888 – 18 September 1893. From the 1970s, the street had been the centre of Montreal's gay village. Open since 1974 and still operating from its basement location on Stanley Street until its closing in 2009, the gay bar Le Mystique was raided by police in 1976, leading to riots. Starting in the early 1980s, Montreal's gay village relocated further east. Stanley Street (Montreal) Stanley"
"Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, was a Conservative politician and held office as Secretary of State for War, as Colonial Secretary and as President of the Board of Trade. In 1886, seven years before succeeding his brother, he was raised to the peerage in his own right as Baron Stanley of Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster. He was also Governor-General of Canada between 1888 and 1893. In 1892, he purchased and donated the Stanley Cup, to be awarded to the ""championship hockey club of the Dominion of Canada"" each year. Lord Derby was married to Lady"
"Ralph Horner Ralph Byron Horner (June 26, 1884 – December 14, 1964) was a Canadian Senator, farmer, businessman and the patriarch of a Western Canadian political family. Born in North Clarendon, Quebec, Horner and his family settled in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan. A Conservative activist and twice failed provincial candidate, Horner was appointed to the board of the Canadian National Railway by the government of R.B. Bennett in 1931. In 1933, Bennett appointed Horner to the Senate where he served for over 30 years until his death in 1964 as the Senator for Saskatchewan North. In the 1958 general election two"
"to 1963, a Credit Union director from 1965 to 1968, and chair of the Local Brotherhood Railway Trainmen from 1955 to 1967. He was a Roman Catholic, and a member of the Knights of Columbus. He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1967 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Raymond Rudiak by 310 votes in Thunder Bay. The riding was mostly rural and pre-dated the naming of the city of Thunder Bay. It covered across much of northwestern Ontario from Lake Superior to Hudson Bay. Stokes was returned by a much greater majority in the 1971 election. He is"
"R.E. McAlister Rev. Robert Edward McAlister (1880 – 25 September 1953) was a Canadian pastor and evangelist who was one of the founding members of The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. His sermon concerning baptism in the name of Jesus at the Apostolic Faith World-Wide Camp-Meeting played a significant role in spreading the disputed belief of Modalism, as well as baptism in the name of Jesus Christ only, despite the Biblical teaching of baptism “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (Matthew 28:19) Oneness Pentecostalism. R.E. McAlister was born in 1880 in Township"
"designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1962. Jean-Charles Chapais Jean-Charles Chapais, (December 2, 1811 – July 17, 1885) was a Canadian Conservative politician, and considered a Father of Canadian Confederation for his participation in the Quebec Conference to determine the form of Canada's government. Chapais was born in Rivière-Ouelle, a small town in Kamouraska, Quebec, and was educated in Nicolet. Following his success as a farmer and merchant, in 1845 he became the first mayor of Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, the town he had lived in from 1833. The following year, he married Georgina Dionne; they had six children together. At"
"longer than 5.5 inches, a measure again aimed at the Chinese. Bunster is also remembered for his 1878 fist-fight in the House of Commons with Liberal MP Guillaume Cheval. Arthur Bunster Arthur Bunster (1827 – October 8, 1891) was a Canadian entrepreneur and Member of Parliament. Bunster was born in Queen's County (now Laois), Ireland and was educated in Dublin, attending Trinity College. He came to Vancouver Island in 1856 and settled in Victoria, British Columbia. After trying his hand at several other ventures, Bunster purchased the Colonial Brewery in 1859. The brewery was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt,"
"fears of Soviet espionage led to a red scare and the arrest and conviction of 18 people, including Labor-Progressive Party (Communist) Member of Parliament Fred Rose. Canada participated, under the United Nations, in the Korean War. Minister of External Affairs in St. Laurent's Cabinet, Lester Bowles Pearson, was involved in the diplomatic side of the conflict, and became more active in diplomacy with the United Nations after the war ended. In 1956 Pearson suggested a solution to the Suez Crisis - the creation of an international peacekeeping force. For his efforts, Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. St."
"of 1949 in Quebec. Dubbed the ""Three Wise Men"" in English and ""Les trois colombes"" (The three doves) in French, they entered politics at the same time in the federal election of 1965. The trio was recruited by Liberal prime minister Lester Pearson to help derail the rising Quebec separatist movement. He served in various cabinet posts in the Trudeau government until 1975 (Secretary of State: 1968-1973, Minister of Communications: 1973-5), when he left the Liberal caucus and became ambassador to France and then ambassador to the United Nations (1981–1984). In 1978 he was made a Companion of the Order"
"in 1807, a common fate of businesses importing goods at that time. Lester died at Quebec City a few months later. Robert Lester (politician) Robert Lester (ca 1746 – July 12, 1807) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Galway, Ireland around 1746 and came to the town of Quebec around 1770. He became a merchant there, importing cloth and spirits, exporting wheat, supplying provisions to the army and providing small loans to individuals. He served in the militia as a captain during the American invasion of 1775-6. Lester was among those lobbying for"
"he had five sons, three of whom were killed in World War I, and two daughters. He was the son of John F. and May ""Hannah"" Bolton. Ferris Bolton Ferris Bolton (February 13, 1853 – May 11, 1937) was a politician and farmer. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Unionist Party in the 1917 election to represent the riding of Lisgar. Prior to his federal political experience, he was reeve of South Dufferin and Pemble, Manitoba between 1880 and 1894 and reeve of Pembina, Manitoba between 1891 and 1894. Bolton was"
"1963 and on July 8 was given the additional responsibility for the Department of Industry, serving as its Minister until April 1, 1968. He was reelected again in 1967, continuing as Minister of Finance until his government was defeated in the 1970 general election. Lestock Graham DesBrisay was a descendant of Captain Théophile de la Cour DesBrisay (1671–1761) whose Huguenot ancestors fled religious persecution in France and settled in Dublin, Ireland before coming to Canada. Lestock Graham DesBrisay Lestock Graham DesBrisay (September 3, 1920 – 1988) was a Canadian businessman and a politician in the Province of New Brunswick. He"
"the age of 70. He was buried in the crypt of Notre-Dame Church of Lévis. Joseph-Goderic Blanchet Joseph-Goderic (Joseph-Godric) Blanchet, (June 7, 1829 – January 1, 1890) was a Canadian physician and politician. He was the only person to serve as both Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and Speaker of a provincial legislature. He represented Lévis in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal-Conservative member from 1867 to 1873 and from 1879 to 1883; he represented Bellechasse from 1875 to 1878. He also represented Lévis in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1875."