Thomas Van Dusen served as executive assistant to John Diefenbaker from 1964-1967.

Dr. Sant Singh served as an assistant to John Diefenbaker during the 1960s.

Burton Taylor Richardson was a journalist, born in Manitoba in 1906. He was editor of the Toronto Telegram from 1953 to 1962 and special assistant to John Diefenbaker from 1963 to 1966. He wrote Canada and Mr. Diefenbaker in 1962 and briefly helped Diefenbaker with his own memoirs.

This series contains reference material assembled by Burton T. Richardson while serving as Diefenbaker’s special assistant.

Merril Menzies was an economist and brother-in-law of Dr. Glen Green, one of Diefenbaker’s closest political supporters in Prince Albert. In late 1956 Green gave Diefenbaker a paper by Menzies on the possibilities of northern development in Canada. As a result, Menzies became Diefenbaker’s chief economic advisor and the force behind the Northern Vision policy of the 1958 campaign. He resigned his position prior to the 1963 election.

This subseries contains reference material accumulated by Merril Menzies while serving as Diefenbaker’s economic advisor.

Paul Martineau, born at Bryson, Quebec, in 1921, was a lawyer and Conservative Member of Parliament for Pontiac-Temiscamingue from 1958 to 1965. He served as Diefenbaker’s Parliamentary Secretary (1959-1961), Deputy Speaker (1962), and Minister of Mines and Technical Services (1962-1963).

This subseries contains the reference material assembled by Paul Martineau while serving as Diefenbaker’s Parliamentary Secretary.

This subseries contains reference material accumulated by Diefenbaker’s staff for the 1965 election campaign.

This subseries contains reference material accumulated by Diefenbaker’s staff for the 1965 election campaign.

This series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial and employment documents, performance proposals, resumes and biographical sketches, records relating to property management and other societies and organizations, publicity materials, etc.

This series contains reference material collected by Diefenbaker and his office staff while Prime Minister and during his second term as Leader of the Opposition. It includes correspondence, reports, speech notes, press clippings, and some published material.

This series contains two photograph albums. The first documents Saunders' participation in a private expedition to Brazil in 1923. Copies of these photographs are in the form of glass positive. The second documents Saunders' travels around the world, including Hong Kong, China, Malaya, Borneo, Ceylon, Egypt, Malta, France, Gibraltar and England, in 1932. The later album contains both positives and negatives (nitrate) which have been placed in their own file and folders. Both albums and the glass positives are well labelled

This series is comprised of more general materials which were not filed as a part of the previous series or subseries