Order of the British Empire
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...
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Author of the Anne of Green Gables series. During her lifetime, she published 20 novels, over 500 short stories, an autobiography and a book of poetry.
Dame Emma Albani
Also known as Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse Dame Emma Albani was a leading soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century. She performed operas for audiences as prestigious as Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm I and Tsar Alexander II. Born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cecile Lajeunesse, in Chambly, Quebec she spent her early childhood in Plattsburgh, New York, but returned to Montreal following her mother Mélina Mignault's death in 1856. Emma, the eldest daughter in her family, studied at the Sacred Heart Convent where her father Joseph Lajeunesse, a professional musician, was Music Master, and on August 24, 1860, she partnered with Dame Adelina Patti in...