Lester B. Pearson High School (Burlington)
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Lester B. Pearson High School is a high school
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 located in Burlington, Ontario
Burlington, Ontario
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, Canada
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, administered by the Halton District School Board
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The Halton District School Board serves public school students throughout Halton Region, including the municipalities of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville. Its administration area is to the southwest of the city of Toronto. In 2006-2007, it served almost 50,000 students, excluding...

. Founded in 1976, the school is named after former Prime Minister
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 Lester B. Pearson
Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis...

.

Lester B. Pearson High School has just over 800 students enrolled from local communities. The high school has had numerous sporting successes. The school won a Halton title in men's hockey
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 in 2006. The men's basketball
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 team has had success with back to back Halton titles in 1992 and 1993, 3 repetitive Halton titles from 2005–2007 and one in 1988, with 3 Peel-GHAC championships and subsequent appearances at the OFSAA provincial championship tournament in 1988, 1993, 2006 and 2007. The rugby team has had OFSAA appearances numerous times for both senior girls and boys. In 2009 the Junior Boys Basketball Team won the Halton Boys Regional Basketball Championship. In 2011, the Senior Girls soccer team won the Halton Girls Championship and placed third at the 2011 OFSAA Championships. The Junior Girls Volleyball also won their championship in the same year. Also the Sr. Boys Rugby Team went to OFSAA for a 2nd year in a row and getting their first OFSAA win in a friendly match.

Pearson also raised $9,000 to build a school in Sierra Leone
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, Africa with their Social Justice
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 Program run by Ralph Trodd and Student Council.

Notable alumni

  • Ryan Gosling
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    , actor
  • Sarah Harmer
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    Sarah Harmer is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist.-Biography:Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister Mary started taking her to concerts by the well-known Tragically Hip. At the age of 17, she...

    , singer/songwriter
  • Paul Koehler
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    , drummer for post-hardcore band Silverstein
  • Blair McCreadie
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    , journalist
  • Doug Saunders
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    , journalist for The Globe and Mail
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  • Scott Anderson, Sean Anderson, Rick Jackett of Finger Eleven
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