Fonds consists of a selection of photocopied records from the Diefenbaker Canada Centre Archives in Saskatoon. Isabel Campbell of the Naval History Team at the Directorate of History and Heritage selected key records to support the post war naval history project. The records are various documents describing John G. Diefenbaker’s life and career, especially in the late fifties and early sixties. It includes memoranda to the Prime Minister, correspondence with leaders of other states, military officers, ministers and the general public, messages prepared for the House of Commons, speeches, statements, reports of different meetings, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, correspondence and telegrams. This fonds reflects the important questions of the 1957-1963 period, especially on Canadian and international politics and defence issues during the Cold War. International affairs such as the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile crises and the law of the sea, NATO, Canada-US relations and Canadian foreign affairs are also discussed in the fonds. With regards to Canadian defence, there are documents about emergency measures, equipment of the army, nuclear weapons and the Navy. There are also various documents on Canadian internal affairs.
The fonds is divided into eight series:
1- (VI) PMO Numbered series
2- (VII/A) General Reference series
3- (VIII) PMO Unnumbered Correspondence series
4- (IX/C) Second Leader of the Opposition General Correspondence series
5- (XII) Personal and Confidential series
6- (XIII) Reference 1940-1957 series
7- (XIV) Memoirs series
8- (XXIII) Cabinet Ministers’ Statements and Speeches series
CA ON00093 2004/79
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Fonds
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Photocopied 2004 (Originally created 1916-1966)
CA ON00093 2015/10-4-1
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Subseries
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1947-1963
Part of Isabel Campbell collection
Subseries consists of documents from Manuscript Group (MG) 26 which includes the records of the Lester B. Pearson fonds (MG26-N), the Louis St-Laurent fonds (MG26-L) and the John George Diefenbaker fonds (MG26-M). It includes correspondence, memoranda, articles and various other documents. Some of the major subjects include: the Canadian Forces in Europe, the defence of Canada, NATO, free trade, Canada/German foreign relations and the rebuilding of Western Europe after the Second World War (the Marshal Plan). The subseries is arranged by the MG alpha-numeric number series number and includes the following fonds:
- 26-L: The Hon. Louis St-Laurent fonds
- 26-M: The John George Diefenbaker fonds
- 26-N1: The RT. Hon. Lester B. Pearson Pre-1958 series
- 26-N2: The L. B. Pearson Leader of the Opposition correspondence (1958-1963) series