On March 31, 1958, Lester Pearson and his wife, Maryon, watched John Diefenbaker and the Conservatives sweep back into office with 208 seats, the largest parliamentary majority in the country’s ...

The following excerpt is from Freedom Fighter: John Diefenbaker’s Battle for ... a Liberal government would be installed under Lester B. Pearson, motivated primarily to rid himself of having ...

“Should war come,” Prime Minister John Diefenbaker demanded ... Liberal Opposition Leader Lester (“Mike”) Pearson raised an embarrassing point: Diefenbaker insists on sharing “joint ...

Repeatedly accused by Tory Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker of mishandling national ... the whole Liberal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Echoes of Profumo. Central figure of ...

It has been nearly 62 years since Lester Pearson’s Liberals defeated John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservatives ... and he ended up losing his Richmond, B.C. seat in 2021. Far from being an isolated ...