Louis St. Laurent
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Louis Stephen St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.
St. Laurent, c. 1948
Louis and Jeanne on their wedding day, May 19, 1908
St. Laurent as a lawyer, 1936
St. Laurent (left) and Prime Minister King (right) at the San Francisco Conference, May 1945
Lester B. Pearson
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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
Louis St. Laurent
…third largest overall contribution of troops, ships, and aircraft to the Korean War. In 1956, St. Laurent's secretary of state for external affairs, Lester B. Pearson, helped resolve the Suez Crisis by proposing the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), for which Pearson received the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize. St…
Portrait, c. 1963
A memorial plaque on the location of his birthplace
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".