Today in Canada's Political History - December 18, 1944: Lester Pearson announced as Canada’s new Ambassador to the United States

  • National Newswatch

Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced on this date in 1944 that Canada would have a new Ambassador to the United States. His name was Lester B. “Mike” Pearson, who had served overseas at Canada’s High Commission to the United Kingdom. With the Second World War still underway Pearson would play a crucial role in Washington and do the same as Canada and Canadians help craft the United Nations in the war’s aftermath.




Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.