Nobel Prize
The Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson, aka Mike
Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian diplomat, scholar, and politician who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He led the Liberal Party of Canada from 1958 to 1968 and was Leader of the Official Opposition from 1958 to 1963. His international reputation rests primarily on his role in resolving the 1956 Suez Crisis, for which he received the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize. Domestically, his minority governments enacted major social and institutional reforms that reshaped the Canadian state. Pearson was born in Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of Toronto), the son of Edwin Arthur Pearson, a...
Frederick Banting
Date of Birth 1891-11-14 Place of birth: Alliston, Ontario Date of Death 1941-02-21 Place of death: near Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland Cause of death: Airplane crash Also known as Sir Frederick Grant Banting Frederick Banting was the discoverer of insulin and winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 shared with J.J.R. Macleod Inscription: FREDERICK GRANT BANTING1891 KBE 1941HENRIETTA E. BALL BANTING1912 M.A., M.D., FR, COC, LLD 1976 Interment Info Section 29, Lot 29, of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, in Toronto. Web references: https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1941-sir-frederick-banting-dies-in-plane-crash https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-frederick-grant-banting