American Toby Jug Museum 

Lester B. Pearson character jug produced by J. Fryer Limited of Tunstall, England, in a 1970 limited edition for Edward A. Keate of Vancouver, British Columbia. Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) was a Canadian politician, diplomat, statesman, and scholar who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis, which earned him attention worldwide. After the Liberals' defeat in the 1957 federal election, Pearson easily won the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1958. Pearson suffered two consecutive defeats by Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in 1958 and 1962, only to successfully challenge him for a third time in the 1963 federal election. Pearson would win re-election in 1965. A laurel wreath forms the handle of the jug.