In The Pursuit Of Justice

 Canadians have been involved with the United Nations since its inception. 

Lester Pearson was the foreign minister at the time of the Suez Crisis. His proposal to have neutral soldiers serve as peacekeepers would bring the crisis to an end, and win him the Nobel Peace Prize. A replica is here, and the original is at the foreign ministry. He would later be one of our best prime ministers.

Mark Isfeld was a Canadian soldier serving on peacekeeping duties in Croatia, working to clear landmines. He would give dolls like the one at right to children- made by his mother. After he was killed in the line of duty, the dolls have continued to be given out by soldiers and humanitarian workers.

The Peacekeeping Monument is downtown, near the National Gallery.

This is the robe of a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court.

Louise Arbour was a Canadian judge who served as the chief international prosecutor examining war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Her intensive work into the prosecution of war criminals had to have been an ordeal, but in the service of justice. This kind of work has been carried out by other Canadians in her wake, in the former Yugoslavia and beyond.