Biografia De Pearson

INTRODUCTION

I’m going to talk about someone really important in Canada’s history; he won a Nobel Prize for Peace 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.

We can learn a lot about him and his career because he was such a great person and tried his best for his country.

Pearson is generally considered among the most influential Canadians of the 20th century.

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, and the new Flag of Canada.

LESTER BOWLES PEARSON (1897)

He was born on April 23, 1897, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and he died December 27, 1972, in Ottawa), he was politician, diplomat, and prime minister of Canada (1963–68), who was prominent as a mediator in international disputes.

He married Maryon Elspeth Moody on August 22, 1925. Lester was the son of Edwin Arthur Pearson, a Methodist minister, and Anne Sarah Bowles Pearson. Lester had an older brother, Marmaduke and a younger brother, Vaughan.

At the age of eighteen, Lester left his father’s parsonage to be a stretcher, Pearson was shattered by his wartime experiences because he was in First World War, he studied law, worked as a sausage stuffer, won an Oxford scholarship, and came home to be a history professor and football coach. In 1913, Pearson entered the University of Toronto and in 1928 he joined the Foreign Service.

During World War II, Pearson once served as a courier with the codename of "Mike." He went on to become the first director of signals intelligence.

Pearson nearly became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1945, but this move was vetoed by the Soviet Union.

In 1948, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent appointed Pearson Secretary of State for External Affairs (foreign minister) in the Liberal government. Shortly afterward, he won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons, for the federal riding of Algoma East in northern Ontario.

In 1957, for his role in resolving the Suez Crisis through the United Nations, Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The selection committee claimed that Pearson had "saved the world", but critics accused him of betraying the motherland and Canada's ties with the UK. The United Nations Emergency Force was Pearson's creation, and he is considered the father of the modern concept of peacekeeping.

“It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.”

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