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Maryon Elspeth Pearson (née Moody; December 13, 1901 – December 26, 1989) was the wife of Lester B. Pearson, the 14th Prime Minister of Canada.
Sep 21, 2022 · Maryon Pearson is interviewed by Lotta Dempsey at her home, the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive.
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Maryon Pearson, wife of the Leader of the Opposition, became an honourary member. Her husband, Lester B. Pearson, was leading the fight in Parliament against nuclear weapons in Canada.
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And they were there as her car drove by in the royal procession — but they couldn't see much because their attention was elsewhere, said CBC reporter Norman Depoe in a year-end review. "The troops lining the approaches had their back to her," said Depoe. "They were looking outward for any attempt by separatists to mar the occasion." Depoe had cover...
Things were more relaxed in Ottawa two days later. "After a Thanksgiving lunch of cold salmon and green salad at the prime minister's residence on Sussex Drive, Mr. Pearson escorted the Queen and the prince through the French doors to the back lawn," the Globe and Mail reported on Oct. 13, 1964. A CBC camera captured the Queen smiling and laughing ...
The day after Thanksgiving, the royal couple departed Canada by air at Uplands air force base, and CBC Television aired a news special showing the pageantry of the official farewell ceremony. Among those assembled inside a hangar decorated for the occasion were 1,000 schoolchildren and 400 invited guests. "The RCAF laid on a thousand of them yester...
Jun 7, 2017 · Pearson married his wife, Maryon Moody, in 1925. R. Innell. A good student, 16-year-old Pearson got into U of T’s Victoria College in 1913, the year before the First World War began. He...
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Canadian first lady. Born Maryon Elspeth Moody, 1901, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; died Dec 26, 1989; m. Lester Bowles Pearson ( prime minister of Canada, 1963–68), Aug 22, 1925 (div. Dec 27, 1972); children: Geoffrey A.H. Pearson (b. 1927, who m. Landon Carter Pearson, Canadian senator), Patricia Lillian Pearson (b. 1929).
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Maryon Pearson (right), widow of former prime minister Lester Pearson, chats with Mrs. 8/16/1973. Prince Philip and Margaret Trudeau, wife of the Prime Minister, listen to the Queen as she officially opens the Lester B. Pearson external affairs bui (...) 8/2/1973.
