Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian politician, diplomat, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1958 to 196
Portrait, c. 1963
Pearson serving with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in World War I in Salonika
Ice hockey in Europe; Oxford University vs. Switzerland, 1922. Future Canadian prime minister Lester Pearson is at right front. His nickname from the Swiss was "Herr Zig-Zag".
Pearson with John Ross McLean, Vincent Massey and Georges Vanier on 1 January 1938 at Canada House, London
Thomas Clement Douglas was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist m
Douglas, c. 1950s
The Leader-Post announces the CCF victory, 1944
The Greatest Canadian, a statue depicting Douglas created by Lea Vivot and installed along the riverfront boardwalk in Weyburn, Saskatchewan