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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 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) B) Other Websites: Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO) Canada's Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) 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 |
