Because the Liberals were still mostly classically liberal, Diefenbaker promised to outspend the incumbent Liberals, who campaigned on plans to stay the course of fiscal conservatism they had followed through St-Laurent's term in the 1940s and 1950s.

Mulroney struck an early friendship with Diefenbaker ( who won the leadership ) and received telephone calls from him.

Saskatchewan's Bill of Rights is considered to have had formative influence on John Diefenbaker, who was from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

PC leaders such as John Diefenbaker and Joe Clark were seen by many westerners as viable challengers to the Liberals who traditionally had relied on the electorate in Quebec and Ontario for their power base.

In 1957, when John George Diefenbaker took power with a minority Progressive Conservative government, he offered the Speaker's chair to Stanley Knowles of the opposition Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( the precursor to the NDP ), who declined.

The result was that the Progressive Conservative government of John Diefenbaker, who also happened to represent Saskatchewan, introduced and passed ( with all-party approval ) the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act of 1957.

Three Canadian prime ministers — John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie, and John Diefenbaker — were widowers, who were each married to their second wives during their terms as prime minister.

Set in Chicago, the show follows the adventures of Constable Benton Fraser ( Paul Gross ), an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), who is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Detective Raymond Vecchio of the Chicago Police Department to solve crimes, assisted by Fraser's companion Diefenbaker, a deaf white wolfdog.

Accompanied by his half-wolf Diefenbaker ( who adopted Fraser after saving his life, and is deaf, but can read lips ), the investigation leads Fraser to uncover a plot by a company building a dam that is slowly killing the environment.

Drew, who had been elected PC leader in 1948 over Saskatchewan MP John Diefenbaker.

Those Tory leaders who disliked Diefenbaker and his views, and hoped to find a candidate from Drew's conservative wing of the party, wooed University of Toronto president Sidney Smith as a candidate.

Other Diefenbaker opponents, such as those who had urged Smith to run, believed that the 61-year-old Diefenbaker would be merely a caretaker, who would serve a few years and then step down in favour of a younger man, and that the upcoming election would be lost to the Liberals regardless of who led the Tories.

Some members of the Tories ' campaign committee had urged Diefenbaker not to build his campaign around the Pipeline Debate, contending that the episode was now a year in the past and forgotten by the voters, who did not particularly care what went on in Parliament anyway.

Scattered across the country, the shelters are popularly known as " Diefenbunkers ", a nickname coined by Liberal opposition politicians of the early 1960s, and was derived from the name of the Prime Minister of the day, John Diefenbaker, who authorized their construction.

In 1956, he was considered a possibility for the party's leadership, but decided not to run, disappointing those in the party establishment who wished to prevent the populist John Diefenbaker from becoming leader.

In the 1964 Great Flag Debate, he was one of a handful of Conservative MPs who broke with leader John Diefenbaker to support the adoption of the Maple Leaf flag.

In the 1963 Canadian election, Diefenbaker was replaced by the famed diplomat Lester B. Pearson, who accepted the warheads.

* Nationally, the Liberals had just chosen a new leader, Lester Pearson, who had given an ill-advised speech in Commons that asked Diefenbaker to give power back to the Liberals without an election because of a recent economic downturn.

In the Canadian federal elections of 1962 and 1963, John Diefenbaker charged the U. S. government with somehow subverting his election campaign and aiding liberal Lester B. Pearson, who was later elected in 1963.

But the ensuing uproar in Parliament had a lasting impression on the electorate, and was a decisive factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by John Diefenbaker, in the 1957 election.

Diefenbaker had reached his 70th birthday in 1965.

The Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker, however, felt that more Francophone representation was needed in Canada's government ; in his memoirs, Diefenbaker said he had considered a non-Canadian for the post and attributed his decision to put forward Vanier for appointment to a chance meeting with the Major-General.

While opponents pointed to this remarkable distance, Orchard and his supporters argued that they represented " traditional " Tory values and economic nationalism that the older Conservative Party, and the Progressive Conservative party before Mulroney, had espoused, namely that of John Diefenbaker.

However, in 1963, he had falling out with Diefenbaker, and became embroiled in the Munsinger Affair and elected to sit out the 1963 election, which the Tories lost to Lester Pearson.

" Saskatchewan Tory MP John Diefenbaker spoke the following day, and alleged that Howe had said, " We may save a million dollars, but what of it?

Diefenbaker had long been a maverick even within his party, was little known in eastern Canada, and many deemed him unelectable.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker said of Howe upon his death, " We often had strong differences but our personal relations remained most friendly at all times ...

On 20 February 1959, the infamous " Black Friday ", Żurakowski, along with the approximately 15, 000 employees of Avro and Orenda plants learned that the Diefenbaker government had precipitously cancelled the Avro Arrow program and its Orenda Iroquois engine.

Patterson expressed confidence that the party could bounce back, as it had after the Diefenbaker sweep in the 1958 election, noting the strength of the Créditistes in Quebec, and expressed hope that the two parties would be reunited.

With the remaining seats won by other parties, the PC party only had a plurality in the House of Commons, but the margin was sufficient to make John Diefenbaker Canada's first Tory Prime Minister since 1935.

Diefenbaker toured a nation in which Liberal support at the provincial level had slowly been eroding.

St. Laurent had informed Diefenbaker that Parliament would be dissolved in April, for an election on June 10.

It quickly became apparent that the information released by the Americans might have come from Canadian intelligence sources, and after severe questioning of Pearson by Diefenbaker and the other parties ' foreign policy critics, Pearson made a statement announcing that Norman had had communist associations in his youth, but had passed a security review.

In the 1960s, efforts by the governments of Prime Ministers John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson culminated in the Fulton-Favreau formula, but without Quebec's endorsement, the patriation attempt failed.

John Diefenbaker would hold the portfolio on two subsequent occasions.

The year saw the nation's Governor General, Georges Vanier, die in office ; and two prominent federal leaders, Official Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker, and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson announced their resignations.

The river along with Lake Diefenbaker are the only two bodies of water in Saskatchewan that support a reproducing population of rainbow trout.

The Qu ' appelle River Dam is the smaller of two embankment dams: which created Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, Canada.

He was appointed to the Senate by Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in January 1958, two years before Status Indians won the right to vote in Canada and pressed for Aboriginals to be enfranchised.

* Fleming tried to straddle the fence, saying that the meaning was unclear, and would oppose it if Diefenbaker ’ s " two nations " interpretation were correct, but accepted that it meant " two founding peoples ".

Over the two months leading up to the campaign, Fleming's supporters steadily left his campaign to join those of the two provincial premiers, and then to Diefenbaker when he finally joined the campaign.

* Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker married a GCVI teacher, and made two prominent visits to the school including a stop as opposition leader in 1957, just weeks before being sworn in as Prime Minister, and one as Prime Minister in 1963 just before losing the next election to Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson