Canada & the UN > Lester Pearson’s Role in the UN & FAO

United Nations Association in Canada's "Lester B. Pearson's Role in the Formation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and in Other United Nations Activities" Continued... (Part 6 of 6)

SECTION III: Selected Bibliography

On-Line Biographies of Lester B. Pearson
(A = annotated; D = descriptive)

Several short biographies of The Right Honourable Lester "Mike" Bowles Pearson are available on the web, including the following sites, presented in alphabetical order -- AngelFire's Biography on Pearson (D), Arthur Meighen High School (D), Canada OnLine (D), Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs (D), Government of Canada (D), Harvard's Well-Known Canadians (A), Lester Pearson College (D), Library and Archives Canada (D), Malaspina Books (D), the Nobel Laureates (D), Pearson & the UN as Peacekeepers (D), Remembering Lester B. Pearson (D), United Nations General Assembly (D), and University of Toronto (D).

There is also significant information on Pearson's life and career on the website of the Canadian Broadcasters Corporation 2004 series 'The Greatest Canadian', including archival audio and video clips. This process of national debate and public voting ultimately ranked Pearson as the 6th greatest Canadian.

For those who’d like to test their knowledge of the life of Pearson, a short quiz is available by the Hastings County Board of Education.

Other Relevant On-Line Resources

A) Specific Documents:

Pearson's career in Canadian politics and at the United Nations - a Chronological Summary Chart (pdf or webpage)
Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize (1957) - Presentation speech by Dr. Gunnar Jahn
Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize (1957) - Acceptance speech by Lester B. Pearson
Pearson's Victor Gollancz Humanity Award (1972) - Public address by Lester B. Pearson

Agreement for UNRRA (November 9, 1943) - the official articles of agreement for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (Pearson was Canada's representative, see Part IV)
The UN in 1956 - a history of key events, including the Suez Crisis, from the perspective of of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammaarskjold
The Question of Palestine & the United Nations - a primer by UN Department of Information
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) - synopsis of history and current status
What the UN does for Peace - one of "UN in Brief" documents

B) Other Websites:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Food Programme (WFP)

Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)
United Nations (UN)
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
World Bank

Published Resources

Beal, John Robinson, The Pearson Phenomenon, Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto, 1964

Boscardi, Lionello, Antonella Gesulfo and Waldo Villalpando (editors), An Instrument of Peace: For 40 Years, UNHCR Alongside Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1991

Canada's Department of Agriculture, Canada and FAO, Government Cat. no. A73-1453, Information Canada, Ottawa, 1971

Commission on International Development, Partners in Development: Report of the Commission on International Development, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1969

Eayrs, James and Robert Spencer (editors), Lester Pearson’s Diplomacy, International Journal Vol. XXIX, No. 1, Winter 1973-74, Canadian Institute for International Affairs, Toronto

English, John, Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson, Vol. 1 1897-1948 and Vol. 2 1949-1972, First Edition, Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers, Toronto, 1989

Fry, Michael G. (editor), Freedom and Change: Essays in Honour of Lester B. Pearson, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1975

Hambidge, Gove, The Story of FAO, D. Van Nostrand Company Inc, New York, 1955

Lingard, C. Cecil, Canada in World Affairs: 1941-45, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1950

Pearson, Geoffrey A.H., Seize the Day: Lester B. Pearson and Crisis Diplomacy, Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1993

Pearson, Lester B., Earnest A. Gross and Sir Patrick Dean, A Critical Evaluation of the United Nations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1961

Pearson, Lester B., Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volumes I (1897-1948), II (1948-1957) and III (1957-1968), University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1972, 1973 and 1975 respectively

Pearson, Lester B., Peace in the Family of Man - the Reith Lectures, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1969

Pearson, Lester B. as Secretary of State for External Affairs, The Crisis in the Middle East: October-December 1956, Queen’s Printer & Controller of Stationary, Ottawa, 1957

Pearson, Lester B., Words and Occasions: an Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from his Papers, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusets, 1970

Phillips, Ralph W., FAO: Its Origins, Formation and Evolution (1945-81), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1981

Reford, Robert W., Canada and Three Crises (the William Clayton lectures on international economic affairs and foreign policy and the Nobel Peace Prize lecture), Canadian Institute for International Affairs, Toronto, 1968

Soward, F.H., Canada in World Affairs: from Normandy to Paris 1944-46, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1950

Soward, F.H. and Edgar McInnis, Canada and the United Nations: National Studies on International Organization, Manhattan Publishing Company, New York, 1956

Thordarson, Bruce, Lester Pearson: Diplomat and Politician, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974

United Nations, The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem 1917 - 1988, United Nations, New York, 1990

United Nations Department of Public Information, Everyone’s United Nations: A Handbook on the Work of the United Nations, United Nations, Tenth Edition, 1986

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, The Story of UNRRA, UNRRA Office of Public Information, Washington, 1948

Basic Documents of FAO, May 1943 to January 1946, (contains all formal reports and papers from the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture and from the founding meeting of FAO at Québec City), Canada's Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, 1946

Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, First Report to the Governments of the United Nations by the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, E. Cloutier -Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, Canada's Department of External Affairs, Conference Series 1945 No. 1, Ottawa, 1945