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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Lester B. Pearson, Randal Marlin, A. H. Lightstone, John Porter, Rand Dyck, Albert Trueman, Peggy Kleinplatz, Tim Patterson, William Anselmi, Frank Underhill, Derek Burney, Ivan Coyote, Lloyd Shaw, Pauline Jewett, Jill Vickers, Monique Frize, Erwin Kreyszig, Martin Wilk, Richard J. Van Loon, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Michel Nakhla, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Christopher Levenson, Marco Frascari, Ruth Nichols, John J. Cove, Tom McSorley, Brian Segal, Jorg-Rudiger Sack, A. B. McKillop, Michael Walker, Jo Y. Wong, Paul van Oorschot, Sheridan Scott, Simon Dalby, Michael Jemtrud, Andrea Doucet. Excerpt: Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (23 April 1897 - 27 December 1972) was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, 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, until 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965. During Pearson's time as Prime Minister, his minority government introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and the current Canadian flag. During his tenure, Prime Minister Pearson also convened the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. With these accomplishments, together with his groundbreaking work at the United Nations and in international diplomacy, Pearson is generally considered among the most influential Canadians of the 20th century. Pearson was born in the town of Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of Toronto, where its principal airport is named in his honour), the son of Edwin Arthur Pearson, a Methodist (later United Church of Canada) minister, and Anne Sarah Bowles. He was brother to Vaughan Whitier Pe...
