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| | John Diefenbaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Diefenbaker was first elected to the federal Parliament in the 1940 federal election. | | | Diefenbaker retained his parliamentary seat for the next twelve years until his death, while also serving as the chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon beginning in 1969. | | | Diefenbaker appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Diefenbaker
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| | John Diefenbaker - MSN Encarta |
| | Diefenbaker received his law degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1919. | | | Diefenbaker then confined himself to his law practice and to provincial politics. | | | However, Diefenbaker developed into a forceful speaker, and when he was finally elected to the House of Commons, he became nationally known as a defender of individual and minority rights. |
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Olson, Diefenbaker requested on appeal that a conviction for murder be quashed on the ground that the trial judge had improperly directed the jury. | | | Diefenbaker's memoirs are gathered under the general title One Canada: memoirs of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker (3v., Toronto, 1975-77) and are divided into three periods: [1]: The crusading years, 1895-1956; [2]: The years of achievement, 1957-1962: [3]: The tumultuous years, 1962-1967. | | | As a repatriated soldier, Diefenbaker had supported the Union government of Sir Robert Laird Borden* in the election of 1917, although he was opposed to the War-time Elections Act, which deprived recently naturalized Canadians of the vote. |
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http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42125&query=Diefenbaker
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| | UBC Student - Short Stories - A Necessary Evil? |
| | John Diefenbaker died and his body lay in state in the Hall of Honours at the House of Commons. | | | Diefenbaker asked him if he was Senator Derksen. | | | John Diefenbaker never knew the policy decisions this neophyte politician made on his behalf. |
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| | Diefenbaker-Biography-First Among Equals |
| | Diefenbaker was elected leader of the Conservative party of Saskatchewan in 1936, but the party won no seats in the 1938 election. | | | Diefenbaker quickly established himself as a successful criminal lawyer. | | | The first woman federal Cabinet minister, Ellen Fairclough, was appointed by Diefenbaker. |
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http://www.collectionscanada.ca/primeministers/h4-3331-e.html
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| | Saskatoon Airport Authority - About Us - About John G. Diefenbaker |
| | Educated in one-room country schools, taught by his father and uncle, at the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute and the University of Saskatchewan, John Diefenbaker determined at an early age that politics held his destiny. | | | Diefenbaker completed his Law Articles and opened practice in the little town of Wakaw. | | | Finally elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Lake Centre in 1940, he was defeated in his bid to become National Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1942. |
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| | Dief the Chief - Campaigning for Canada - CBC Archives |
| | Diefenbaker's Conservative government also ushered in the Canadian Bill of Rights and was responsible for the infamous cancellation of the Avro Arrow project. | | | Pearson attacked Diefenbaker's weak economic policy and his poor diplomatic relationship with the United States. | | | A year later, Diefenbaker sought a majority in another federal election. |
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| | Information about Canada FDC: 17¢ John Diefenbaker |
| | Seven years later, they moved into town and, in 1919, John Diefenbaker received his law degree from the University of Saskatchewan. | | | Under his leadership, the party captured more Parliamentary seats than any other party in Canadian history and Diefenbaker was elected prime minister in 1957. | | | It was not long before the young country boy earned a reputation as a lawyer who could keep a jury spellbound with his rich oratory. |
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| | The Right Honourable John George Diefenbaker |
| | Over his 20-year career as a successful criminal lawyer, John Diefenbaker defended 18 men seeking to avoid the death penalty. | | | Raised the ire of the United States by refusing to support actions against Cuba. | | | For the first time, People of the First Nations were allowed to vote in federal elections. |
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/diefenbaker.htm
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| | Compass Vol. 14 #2, Books: Murphy Review |
| | Smith lays to rest the old charge that Diefenbaker was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, although he certainly used and allowed himself to be used by the Klan for a time. | | | In Smith's eyes, Diefenbaker was little more than a scheming young political opportunist who became a scheming old political opportunist who became a scheming opportunist emeritus. | | | ccording to his own memoirs, John George Diefenbaker determined his ambition to become prime minister of Canada when he was eight years old. |
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| | The Diefenbaker Gravesite |
| | Diefenbaker remained in Parliament until his death on August 16, 1979. | | | A teacher in Ontario, Olive Diefenbaker had been previously married to a Toronto Lawyer, Harry Palmer, who died less than three years after the birth of their daughter. | | | A news article in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on July 9th, 1979 announced that upon his death Mr. |
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| | H-Net Review: Gordon L. Barnhart on Rogue Tory: Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker |
| | Denis Smith's biography of Diefenbaker, Dief the Chief as he was often called by his friends, is a balanced picture of this embattled Prime Minister. | | | This biography of Diefenbaker shows him as a man, a defence lawyer, and a politician. | | | The biography ends with a sympathetic and understanding description of the death of Diefenbaker and his final journey by train back to his home province of Saskatchewan. |
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2154864079377
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| | John Diefenbaker - MSN Encarta |
| | Other Cabinet ministers resigned, and there was an unsuccessful attempt to force Diefenbaker to step down as prime minister. | | | The new minister of trade and commerce was George Hees, who, after Diefenbaker, became the most powerful man in the party. | | | Diefenbaker was most proud of his Bill of Rights, introduced to Parliament in 1958 and passed into law in 1960. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572370_3/John_Diefenbaker.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Rogue Tory: the Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker: Books |
| | In the minds of his young economics adviser, Merrill Menzies, and his Northern Affairs Minister, Alvin Hamilton, it promised an active big-spending government investing in the infrastructure of the North. | | | This text appeared as I was attending graduate school in Toronto, Ontario. | | | As Coyne's speeches became a political embarrassment, however, the cabinet resolved, with less than a year left in his seven-year term, to get rid of him. |
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| | EXN.ca Discovery |
| | Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was a champion of civil rights and ordinary people, an outstanding Parliamentarian and orator who galvanized the political landscape during the 1957 and 1958 federal elections. | | | After the 1962 election reduced his government to a minority, Diefenbaker careened from one confrontation with the United States to another. | | | Intensely partisan, his desire to preserve his majority led to indecisiveness and mistrust. |
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http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1999/06/28/60.asp
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| | Diefenbaker Web |
| | John George Diefenbaker was born on September 18, 1895 in Neustadt, Ontario to William and Mary (Bannerman). | | | This is NOT a page about Diefenbaker, the dog from Due South. |
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| | John Diefenbaker |
| | After Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights (1960), the government reduced immigration restrictions based on racial grounds and began to accept more Asian and black immigrants. | | | Kennedy pushed for opposition to the treaty, but Canada voted for it (1962). | | | At a Commonwealth conference (1961), Diefenbaker was the only white leader to support the African and Asian members against allowing South African membership. |
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http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/issue43/articles/john_diefenbaker.htm
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| | ArthurSlade.com |
| | At the age of fourty three he was elected to the House of Commons, after being defeated five times in a row. | | | John George Diefenbaker was a determined man. As a child he announced he was going to be prime minister of Canada. |
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| | Diefenbaker Web: Quotations |
| | And then they say there's something wrong with Diefenbaker because he has more seats today than three leaders had in four elections." | | | [During the 1965 election campaign, this was a line Diefenbaker was tempted to use, but never did - publicly] | | | "Sir John A. Macdonald gave his life to this party. |
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| | WHO'S FROM SASKATCHEWAN (famous people from Sask.) |
| | During his time as Prime Minister he was also the first to appoint a woman to the federal cabinet. | | | John Diefenbaker (1895 - 1979) was born in Ontario, but his family moved to Borden,Saskatchewan in 1903, when John was 8 years old. | | | The Diefenbaker Canada Center in Saskatoon (at the University of Sask.) contains his official papers and collections and replicas of his office and the Privy Council Chamber. |
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| | CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf |
| | Harper is an economist; Diefenbaker was a very successful trial lawyer. | | | Diefenbaker stood by his One Canada stuff, the old flag, and the British Connection all his colourful life. | | | Harper more than Diefenbaker runs the extremist risk because he does come from Social Credit roots and because his social conservative views on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage don't play well with women, gays or the liberal limousine set. |
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| | Bassett, John |
| | Bassett may have had some influence on the Diefenbaker government's decision to weaken the television monopoly held by the public network. | | | However, historians report no evidence that the prime minister personally intervened in the BBG decision to award the license to BATON. | | | When in 1959 the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG), reflecting the views of the recently elected Conservative government of John Diefenbaker, decided to allow an expansion of private telecasting in Canada, the most coveted market was Toronto, seen correctly as a potential gold mine. |
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| | The Canadian Royal Heritage Trust Museum (Diefenbaker House) |
| | John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada 1957-1963, who faithfully served Queen and Country. | | | The room where John Diefenbaker was born on 18 th September 1895 contains exhibits on his life of service to Crown and Country, and on some of the historic royal and constitutional developments that took place while he was the Queen’s first minister in Canada. | | | The story of the Diefenbaker family, their commitment to Canada’s royal heritage, and the house on Barbara Street, where John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada 1957-1963, was born in 1895 is also related. |
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| | 1960s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The beginning of what was generally seen as a new political era with the election of President John F. Kennedy in 1960, and its ending in tragedy and disillusionment with Kennedy's assassination in 1963, the assassinations of King and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and the collapse of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. | | | The rise of a mass movement in opposition to the Vietnam War, ending in the massive Moratorium protests in 1969, and also the movement of resistance to conscription (“the Draft”) for the war. | | | University students rioted in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, huge crowds protested against the Vietnam War in Australia and New Zealand (both of which had committed troops to the war), and politicians such as Harold Wilson and Pierre Trudeau modeled themselves on John F. Kennedy. |
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| | For the first time since John Diefenbaker, a Canadian Prime Minister lay in state on parliament hill. | | | Stricken with Parkinson disease and prostate cancer, Trudeau died in his sleep in the month of September in the year of 2000; surrounded by his family just three weeks short of his 81st birthday. | | | During the 1968 election campaign Trudeau spoke french from Victoria to St. Johns. |
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| | Diefenbaker Web: Books |
| | The Diefenbaker interlude : parties and voting in Canada, an interpretation. | | | The Politics of Canada's Airlines from Diefenbaker to Mulroney 1987. | | | Foreign policy of Canada : a study in Diefenbaker's years. |
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| | Dief! (1981) |
| | The film presents Diefenbaker by showing clips of some of his quotes and of his funeral in 1979. | | | For the one who doesn't know who Diefenbaker was or what was his achievement while he was prime minister of Canada (from 1958 to 1963), this short documentary film by the National Film Board will be of small or no interest at all. | | | Plot Outline: The life and career of the charismatic and controversial Canadian Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker. |
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| | Thursday, August 20, 1964 -The Toronto Telegram |
| | Back from a two-week stay at Stornaway House as guest of John and Olive Diefenbaker, Master Deschenes is preparing for school in September and for the civic election campaign in November. | | | It was at an Arthur Maloney testimonial dinner this year where Opposition Leader Diefenbaker and Mrs. | | | Hard work soon won him a transfer to the headquarters of mayoralty candidate Donald Summerville where Victor was given the difficult task of finding prominent places for 23 large campaign posters. |
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| | Diefenbaker Web: Strange Stuff |
| | Dief and Me. Bob Bossin's (leader of the musical group Stringband) and his account of his meetings with Diefenbaker. | | | This musical group had a hit in the 1970's with Dief Will Be Chief Again. | | | Columnist David Waren refers to Benjamin Netanyahu as "Israel's answer to the late John Diefenbaker." |
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| | LANSTON TYPE GERALD GIAMPA THE MONTHLY SMOG JOHN G. DIEFENBAKER |
| | On the evening of this photo op' Giampa had just finished his first exclusive interview with the then Prime Minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker. | | | the young man on the left, John Diefenbaker the man standing in the middle. | | | This photo is taken in the Vancouver Hotel after Diefenbaker gave Giampa an exclusive interview. |
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| | Dust my Broom » In the Groove » One Canada - Diefenbaker |
| | Volumes of the “Memoirs of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker” Volume 111 will be presented to every graduating grade twelve student in the province. | | | We had a government under former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker who sold out our world-class aircraft manufacturing industry by killing the Avro Arrow program in exchange for the promise of protection with their Bomarc missiles. | | | Perhaps someone should remind former U.S. ambassador Paul Cellucci that once before Canada embraced U.S. protection. |
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| | John Diefenbaker - Canadian Heritage Gallery |
| | John Diefenbaker named Conservative leader, at a party convention in Ottawa, 1956. | | | From left to right: Donald Fleming, John G. Diefenbaker, Davey Fulton. | | | Click here to view a larger picture; to return, use your browser's back button. |
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| | John Diefenbaker Biographies Book Reviews |
| | This short guide in John Diefenbaker Biographies is intended to aid in the decision making process for your book purchase. | | | We feel that you should be able to find the right John Diefenbaker Biographies book fairly easy and pain free. | | | Thank you for your interest in John Diefenbaker Biographies book reviews. |
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| | Diefenbaker |
| | This page may be reprinted for personal reading use only. | | | Due to the high concentration of white fur, one of Dief's parents could very likely have been an Arctic white wolf, while the other one was a sled dog. | | | For more information on the man the character was named after, please see the John George Diefenbaker website. |
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| | JOHN DIEFENBAKER |
| | The John Diefenbaker S.R.C. is a super bunch of kids who love to plan cool events and help out with creating a great positive spirit in John Diefenbaker School. | | | What an AWESOME year ahead we will have! |
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