Canada 150 A local retrospective - Death in Ottawa and in Melville in 1979 - Yorkton This Week

Yorkton This Week
Canada 150 A local retrospective - Death in Ottawa and in Melville in 1979
Yorkton This Week
On August 16, 1979, John Diefenbaker died. The thirteenth Prime Minister, and the only Prime Minister from Saskatchewan thus far, died of a heart attack. In its eulogy, Yorkton This Week remembered him as the last of the old-type politicians, and ...