
Diefenbaker's World
Politicking on the streets of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, John Diefenbaker was in his element. He was much less at home negotiating with the heads of other governments and formulating foreign policy. As prime minister from 1957 to 1963, Diefenbaker oversaw Canada’s role in some of the most dramatic moments of twentieth-century world affairs, but it was an arena in which The Chief was never really...
Politicking on the streets of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, John Diefenbaker was in his element. He was much less at home negotiating with the heads of other governments and formulating foreign policy. As prime minister from 1957 to 1963, Diefenbaker oversaw Canada’s role in some of the most dramatic moments of twentieth-century world affairs, but it was an arena in which The Chief was never really...