Landon Pearson
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The Honourable Landon Pearson OC |
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| Senator for Ontario | |
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In office September 15, 1994 – November 16, 2005 |
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| Appointed by | Jean Chrétien |
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| Born |
November 16, 1930 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Geoffrey Pearson (d. 2008) |
| Relations |
Lester B. Pearson (father-in-law) Maryon Pearson (mother-in-law) |
| Children | 5 (including Patricia Pearson) |
| Alma mater |
University of Toronto University of Ottawa |
| Profession | Author, children's rights advocate |
Landon Carter "Lucy" Pearson, OC (born November 16, 1930 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a former Canadian senator and a children's rights advocate. She is the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, through her marriage to his son Geoffrey Pearson.
Pearson was appointed to the Senate of Canada on September 15, 1994 by then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and sat with the Liberal caucus. She retired from the Senate on November 16, 2005 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Her book, Children of Glasnost (1990) described growing up in the Soviet Union, and how that changed as Russian society became more open. A second book, Letters from Moscow ',a selection of her personal correspondence while living in Moscow while her husband was the Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union, was published in 2003. Most recently in 2010, in collaboration with Judy Finlay PhD, Pearson published Tibacimowin: A Gathering of Stories, which gathered and translated oral history stories from members of some Ontario First Nations elders peoples.
In 1974 she cofounded Children Learning for Living, a prevention program in children's mental health. It operated for 23 years through the Ottawa Board of Education until 1998.
She was a school trustee in both Canada and India; and has been involved in community-based programs such as Mobile Creches for Working Mothers' Children, a child care service for the children of nomadic construction workers in New Delhi and Bombay.
In 1979, she was Vice-Chairperson of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child and edited the Commission's report, For Canada's Children: National Agenda for Action. Among her recommendations were
Many of these recommendations have been carried out.
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