Lester B. Pearson

On my bike ride from downtown Toronto, I arrived at Prospect Cemetery on St. Clair Avenue to visit the family graves of Canada’s fourteenth Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson. My first visit was to Lester’s immediate family plot where his father, The Reverend Edwin Arthur Pearson a Methodist minister and his mother Annie Sarah Bowles Pearson rest, along with […]

On my visit to Wakefield, Quebec, I brought along a lacrosse stick and baseball glove to visit the beautiful and quiet McLaren Cemetery, where former Prime Minister of Canada and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester B. Pearson rests on a peaceful hillside overlooking the Gatineau Hills. But on this visit, my thoughts were less about […]