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Physician and professor, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

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John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979) was born in Neustadt, Ontario. In 1903 the family moved to a homestead in the Fort Carlton area of the Northwest Territories but eventually settled in Saskatoon in 1910. John studied at the University of Saskatchewan receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree (1915), Master of Arts (1916) and Bachelor of Law (1919). He enlisted in 1916 and served in England until 1917. He established his first law practice in Prince Albert in 1924 and continued to practice law until 1957.
John Diefenbaker first entered politics in 1917. From 1936 to 1941 he served as leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal-Conservative Party and in 1940 was elected to the federal government as a member for the Lake Centre riding. From 1953 he represented the Prince Albert riding. On 14 December, 1956, Diefenbaker was selected as leader of the Conservative Party and he became Prime Minister in 1957. His government was defeated in the 1963 federal election and thereafter he served as Leader of the Opposition until his defeat in 1967. he continued to represent the Prince Albert riding until his death in 1979.

German engineer, born in Paris, studied at the Munich Polytechnic. Set about constructing a "rational heat motor," demonstrating the first compression engine in 1897, after solving the problem of feul injection into the cylinder head against enormous pressures by devising a special pump. He spent most of his life at his factory at Augsburg until he vanished from an English channel steamer in September 1913.

Michael DiGirolamo is a photographer.

Benjamin Dillon was an important regional architect in Eastern Ontario who practised there for over 40 years. Born in Lyndhurst, Ontario on 8 May 1871, he studied architecture and mechanical drawing with John Robb, a private tutor in Kingston, and then attended classes at the Kingston School of Art for two seasons before articling with Arthur Ellis, a prominent architect in Kingston. He opened an office in Renfrew in the Ottawa Valley in 1896 and worked there for two years, then moved permanently to Brockville in late 1898 and continued to live and work there for the next 35 years. Despite competition from architects in nearby Kingston and Ottawa, Dillon was successful at sustaining his own career, and in obtaining commissions throughout Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Counties, Dundas County, and in Lennox & Addington Counties, and his name can now be linked to over 80 projects which he completed for institutional, ecclesiastical, commercial, residential and industrial projects during the period from 1899 to 1937. These included over fifteen churches located in towns and villages, invariably designed in a bold and expressive Romanesque Revival style which he favoured for his Methodist, Presbyterian and Anglican clients. He adapted this style for institutional commissions, best seen in his design for the Town Hall in Athens, Ontario (1903-04), and for the Carnegie Library in Brockville (1903), both of which have survived and are still in use today.

His designs for churches are almost instantly recognizable for the sheer size and scale of the building, and for the asymmetrical appearance and composition of each work. His unique and outstanding ecclesiastical commissions include St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Pakenham, Ont. (1896-97), and the sprawling Methodist Church in the tiny community of Chesterville, Ont. (1907), both of which are still standing. His career was not without setbacks; in February 1916 his business office in the Harding Block in Brockville was gutted by fire (along with those of several other tenants) and he lost all of his architectural drawings and records (see the Weekly British Whig (Kingston), 10 Feb. 1916, 8). This may explain why few archival collection of his drawings have been located in Canadian institutions or local museums. Dillon died at Maitland, Ont. on 9 July 1942

Joseph Dillon, stonecarver/sculptor, Gananoque, Ont.

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Archibald W. Dingman (b.1850, Prince Edward Co., d.1936, Alberta), came to Alberta ca. 1900, 1905 founded Calgary Natural Gas, 1914 drilled Dingman well, Turner Valley.