Some Lester B. Pearson artifacts could find their way to Manitoulin this summer. A drive is underway by the Old Mill Heritage Centre in Kagawong to display the artifacts as a Canada 150 project. The artifacts are in boxes in Ottawa at the National Archives. They include the former Prime Minister`s Order of Canada and his Nobel Peace Prize. The museum has started a Go Fund Me campaign to raise the money to get the artifacts from Ottawa to the Island. The link is https://www.gofundme.com/lester-b-pearson-and-canadian-flag Pearson was the MP of Algoma East from 1948 to 1968.
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Manitoulin museum trying to display Lester B. Pearson artifacts
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.
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