In light of today, have you ever wondered where our Past (the Deceased ones) Prime Ministers lay buried? Is it a secret? No. The Government of Canada does keep track of them.
They have a database
Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett lies buried in the UK. Not likely to be visited too often, or at all. Maybe the former British Columbia Premier/Canada High Commissioner Gordon Campbell did, and billed accordingly for his cuff links. Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is about half as far away from the easterners seat of power as that of Bennett in the United Kingdom (5,616 Kilometres).
The majority of Prime Ministers are buried in the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec, spread out over 942 Kilometers. Two more Prime Ministers are at rest in Nova Scotia.
As to who is tending their burial plots, its us, because ... Its the Law.
National Program for the Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers
Overview of the Program
In 1999 the Government of Canada created the National Program for the Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers to ensure the conservation and promotion, in dignity and respect, of the grave sites of our deceased prime ministers. The program also provides Canadians with information on the lives and accomplishments of former prime ministers whose public careers have had a profound impact on the history of our country.
The program includes the preparation, in association with the family and the cemetery, of comprehensive conservation plans for the grave, the installation of a Canadian flag and an information panel on the life and accomplishments of the prime minister resting in the grave, as well as the organization of a commemoration ceremony in his honour. In addition, printed and online documents highlight the contributions of each prime minister.
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HmmmmmUnder the National Program for the Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers, the grave sites of ten Canadian Prime Ministers have now been formally honoured and recognized, and plans are under way for the remainder. This program is helping Canadians appreciate important leaders from the nation's past by keeping the memory of our deceased prime ministers alive, and providing information about their lives and accomplishments.
If you are wondering which Prime Minister brought this recognition forward, the National Program for Grave Sites, .... the Prime Minister in 1999, Jean Chrétien - Wikipedia
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If you are interested and have some time on your hands, and if Covid-19 is forcing you to travel to parts less trampled:
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Current Mourning address of deceased Prime Ministers:
927, Purdy Mills Rd, Kingston, ON
1016 Colborne Road, Sarnia, ON
1297 Chemin de la Forêt, Montréal, QC
1259 South Park St, Halifax, NS
631 Dundas St. W, Belleville, ON
280 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa, ON
375 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON
St. Michael’s Church, Old London Road, Mickleham, Surrey, England
101 Diefenbaker Place, Saskatoon, SK
Chemin MacLaren, Wakefield, QC
There is a second database
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There is one person, one Prime Minister, of significant note, in my opinion, Lester Bowles Pearson:
In his Nobel Prize Lecture, Mr. Pearson asked:
“How can there be peace without people understanding each other, and how can this be if they don’t know each other?”
Father of the United Nations Forces
In 1956, Great Britain, France and Israel launched an attack on Egypt aimed at removing President Nasser. The United States had not been informed, and the Soviet Union threatened to use atomic weapons against the assailants. The "Suez Crisis" found its solution when the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Pearson, who had served as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1952, won support for sending a United Nations Emergency Force to the region to separate the warring parties. This gained him the Peace Prize for 1957.
