Jack Pickersgill

Jack Pickersgill
Pickersgill, c. 1960s
Minister of Transport
In office
3 February 1964 – 18 September 1967
Prime MinisterLester B. Pearson
Preceded byGeorge McIlraith
Succeeded byPaul Hellyer
Secretary of State for Canada
In office
22 April 1963 – 2 February 1964
Prime MinisterLester B. Pearson
Preceded byErnest Halpenny
Succeeded byMaurice Lamontagne
In office
12 June 1953 – 30 June 1954
Prime MinisterLouis St. Laurent
Preceded byFrederick Gordon Bradley
Succeeded byRoch Pinard
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
In office
16 May 1963 – 21 December 1963
Prime MinisterLester B. Pearson
Preceded byGordon Churchill
Succeeded byGuy Favreau
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
In office
1 July 1954 – 20 June 1957
Prime MinisterLouis St. Laurent
Preceded byWalter Edward Harris
Succeeded byDavie Fulton (Acting)
Member of Parliament
for Bonavista—Twillingate
In office
10 August 1953 – 18 September 1967
Preceded byFrederick Gordon Bradley
Succeeded byCharles Granger
Personal details
Born(1905-06-23)23 June 1905
Wyecombe, Ontario, Canada
Died14 November 1997(1997-11-14) (aged 92)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)
Beatrice Young
(m. 1936; died 1938)

Mary Margaret Beattie
(m. 1939)
Children4
Education
Occupation

John Whitney Pickersgill PC CC (23 June 1905 – 14 November 1997) was a Canadian civil servant and politician. He was born in Ontario, but was raised in Manitoba. He was Clerk of the Privy Council in the early 1950s. He was first elected to federal parliament in 1953, representing a Newfoundland electoral district and serving in Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's cabinet. In the mid-1960s, he served again in cabinet, this time under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Pickersgill resigned from Parliament in 1967 to become the president of the Canadian Transport Commission. He was awarded the highest level of the Order of Canada in 1970. He wrote several books on Canadian history. He died in 1997 in Ottawa.