Both Pearson and Mr. Carney achieved international fame before becoming Liberal leader. The former famously won the Nobel ...

Pearson would have the reins of power and Canada a new Prime Minister. Canada was thus narrowly spared a continuing crisis. In the first hours after his defeat, Diefenbaker, a proud and ...

This has happened only twice – under prime ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Lester Pearson. Yet their examples of orderly succession have been largely ignored by subsequent prime ministers.

4. Lester B. Pearson (1968) Lester B. Pearson announced his resignation as Prime Minister after leading the Liberals through two successive minority governments. Pearson stepped aside at the ...