- The Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson, a 1919 Victoria College graduate, Chancellor of Victoria University from 1952 to 1959, and Canada's fourteenth Prime Minister. Pearson established Canada's reputation in the 20th century as one of the world's great peacekeepers, and helped define Canada's modern foreign policy. In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his international achievements.vicu.utoronto.ca/alumni/Pearson.htm