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All photos from the Documentary Art and Photography Division of the National Archives are marked with the negative number in the bottom left-hand corner.

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Images of 1956

C 18964

    Lester B. Pearson addressing the 11th Session of the UN General Assembly, November 19, 1956.
Images of 1956

PA 155559

    Lester B. Pearson giving a press conference after Britain and France sent troops into Egypt, October 30, 1956.
Images of 1956

PA 108139

    Corporal Frank Walsh of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, preparing for UN peacekeeping duty in the Middle East, November 1956.
Images of 1956

UN 51397

    UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (standing) reading a document with Lester B. Pearson at the UN Headquarters before the opening of the 11th UN General Assembly.
Images of 1956

PA 112766

    Elizabeth MacCallum, chargé d'affaires, Canadian Legation, Beirut, Lebanon
Images of 1956

PA 117597

    Canadian representatives at the 11th UN General Assembly, February 15, 1957. Left to right: John Holmes, Geoffrey Murray, R.A. MacKay, A.S. McGill, and Lester B. Pearson.
Images of 1956

PA 113009

    Major-General E.L.M. Burns.
Images of 1956

C 76069

Lester B. Pearson (centre), is greeted on his arrival in Bonn for the first NATO ministerial meeting in West Germany by Canadian Ambassador Charles Ritchie (right), and Dr. Ernst-Guenther Mohr, West German chief of protocol. May 1, 1957.
Images of 1956

NATO Photo

    NATO's "Three Wise Men" in May 1956: Halvard Lange (Norway), Gaetano Martino (Italy) and Lester B. Pearson.
Images of 1956

PA 205657

    At the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Meeting in London, June- July, 1956. Left to right: Solomon Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka), Jawaharlal Nehru (India), Sydney Holland (New Zealand), Louis St. Laurent (Canada), Anthony Eden (United Kingdom), R.G. Menzies (Australia), J.G. Strijdom (South Africa), Mohammad Ali (Pakistan), and Lord Malvern (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland).
Images of 1956

PA 268882

    Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India addresses a press conference during his visit to Ottawa in December 1956.
Images of 1956

PA 159582

    The diesel engine "Ontario," supplied to Sri Lanka under the Colombo Plan by the Canadian Government, pulls into Mount Lavinia Station, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Images of 1956

PA 205656

    Left to right: Selwyn Lloyd, Louis St. Laurent, Harold Macmillan, Lester B. Pearson, and C.D. Howe during the Anglo-Canadian meetings in Bermuda, March 1957.