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"[I]n 1967, the President of France, Charles de Gaulle, made a visit to Quebec...."[edit]

Having been in primary school back then I recall the incident. But can a source not be cited for the incident and aftermath? What about Lester B. Pearson, ed. John A. Munro and Alex. I. Inglis, Mike: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson Volume 3, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975, pp.266-8? Masalai (talk) 00:26, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[A]nd he struggled to keep Canada out of the Vietnam War[edit]

I would not barge in with editorial alteration to the text here, but would it not be more accurate to mention that it was with the help and support (to put it mildly) of Tommy Douglas? Both were by nearly universal consensus great Canadians, for that matter in Person's case a world figure. But would it not be more accurate to attribute to Tommy Douglas what should be as to Medicare? Masalai (talk) 11:32, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Service in the Serbian Army vs service alongside the Serbian Army[edit]

If it were the case that he had served in the Serbian Army, I would have expected him to have been awarded a Serbian campaign medal. He did indeed serve in Salonika, but this was alongside the Serbians. He did not enlist in the Serbian Army, this is incorrect.

The article behind this states:

'Among the many photographs, Pavlovic points out the one with four uniformed young men. One of them, originally Canadian, was a Corporal and a nurse in the Serbian army in the First World War. His name was Lester Pirson, and after the war he became Prime Minister of Canada and Nobel Peace Prize winner.'

The photo backs up the assertion that he served alongside the Serbs, but this is not evidence that he served in the Serbian Army. Keith H99 (talk) 20:09, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Spengler Cup[edit]

Hello, the sentence currently says "He later also played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club while on a scholarship at the University of Oxford, a team that won the first Spengler Cup in 1923." without a direct citation. It's unclear from my reading whether the Spengler cup was during his time with the team or if it occurred afterwards (or if it occurred during his time there, but he did not participate). Do we have a citation for which one of those three happened, and if so, does anyone have a proposed wording to further clarify the section? 198.52.130.137 (talk) 01:27, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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