The Alberta businessman set new standards in fundraising for the University of Alberta’s Business faculty and maintained a long-standing commitment to the Salvation Army. Hugh John Sanders Pearson was awarded the Order in 1993 for being a pillar of voluntarism in his community. Kit Pearson is the third person in her family to receive the Order of Canada, joining her father, Hugh John Sanders Pearson, and grandfather, Hugh Edward Pearson. “I was 36 when I wrote my first novel and now I’m 72,” said Pearson. She also won the Governor General’s Literary Award for young people’s literature in 1997 for her book Awake and Dreaming (1996). Pearson is best known for her novels The Sky Is Falling (1989), Looking at the Moon (1991), and The Lights Go on Again (1993) that were published as The Guests of War Trilogy. RELATED: Oak Bay author up for $30,000 TD children’s literature award She is one of 103 new appointments announced by Governor General Julie Payette in Ottawa Dec. “I wish I knew who nominated me so I could thank them.” “It is definitely a career highlight,” said Pearson, noting that news of the award came out of the blue. Pearson was appointed to the Order of Canada for her contributions as an author of Canadian literature for children and young adults. Award-winning Oak Bay author Kit Pearson was bestowed one of Canada’s highest honours Thursday.
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