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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.
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. Source for information on Pearson, Maryon (1901–1989): Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages dictionary.
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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...
Landon Pearson. In the autumn of 1928, Lester Bowles (Mike) Pearson, future Nobel Prize winner and Prime Minister of Canada, arrived in Ottawa with his wife, Maryon, their baby (Geoffrey) and another (Patricia) on the way. Mike had just left life as a university professor in Toronto to join Canada’s fledgling foreign service.
Jun 7, 2017 · Once Upon a City: Lester B. Pearson’s peacekeeping legacy Canada’s 14th prime minister, born in Toronto, helped usher in momentous social programs and won a Nobel Peace Prize. June 7, 2017
Apr 25, 2011 · It was Maryon Pearson, wife of Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who coined one of the most telling lines in Canadian political history: “behind every successful man there is a surprised woman.”
Maryon Elspeth Moody was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on December 13, 1901. Her father was a doctor and her mother was superintendent of nurses at a hospital. [1] Maryon and Lester Pearson met at the University of Toronto, where he was a teacher and she was a student. The two married on August 22, 1925.
