Pearson was Canada’s 14th Prime Minister, and while he only led government for five years, he had a hand in erecting some of this country’s lasting modern pillars. The Maple Leaf flag. Universal ...

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But it was Lester B. Pearson, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his work resolving the Suez crisis and past Liberal prime minister, who ultimately selected the single Maple Leaf design.

Through the efforts of Canada's External Affairs Minister, Lester B. Pearson, the UN General Assembly agreed to ... and French troops from the Suez canal zone and the Gaza Strip and to maintain peace ...

But de Lesseps was certainly not the first to imagine a canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas—and, by extension, Europe and Asia—through the Isthmus of Suez. In 1798, during France’s ...

LESTER B. PEARSON was Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He was previously Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1947 to 1958. For his efforts to organize a United Nations ...

The Suez Canal’s revenue has taken a significant hit over the past seven-eight months, due to Israel’s escalating war in the region and its consequences. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced ...

Lester B Pearson ... Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, previously controlled by British and French entities. Pearson’s proposal to establish a United Nations peacekeeping force was ...

Les porte-conteneurs contournent les canaux de Panama et de Suez. MSC / Michel Cappellini Ce sont les plus grands passages maritimes au monde. Le canal de Panama, impacté par la sécheresse, et celui ...

CAIRO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A container ship collided with a floating bridge in the eastern lane of the Suez Canal on Wednesday but the passage of ships through the waterway was not interrupted ...