Politician and statesman Lester B. Pearson was born in Newtonbrook, Ont. Pearson was a noted diplomat before he became prime minister. He was Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. (1944–46), and later led Canada’s delegation to the United Nations, where he was elected president of the General Assembly in 1952. His peacekeeping efforts during the Suez Crisis won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957.