Whitehorse Daily Star

National Peacekeeping Day honours Yukoners

Fifty-two years after former prime minister Lester B. Pearson approved Canada's first United Nations peacekeeping mission, a private member's bill that passed into legislation last June has officially recognized Aug. 9 as National Peacekeepers Day.

By AP on August 12, 2008

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