Education
University of Toronto.
teacher Prime Minister of Canada
University of Toronto.
Maryon and Lester Pearson married on August 22, 1925. They met at the University of Toronto, where he was a teacher and she was a student. Maryon Pearson was also known for her sharp tongued wit.
John English in his biography, Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson, devoted a full chapter to the subject of Mistress
Pearson"s prickly personality. Among her most famous quotations: "Behind every successful man, there stands a surprised woman." I didn"t marry him for lunch." "Yes, three doughnuts and six cups of coffee." "We lost everything.
"The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don"t care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.".