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Sixty-four-years-ago tonight the political earth moved as John Diefenbaker and his Tories won a remarkable 208 seats in Canada’s 24General Election. Lester B. Pearson’s Liberals were reduced to 48 seats, a loss of 57 compared to their showing only nine months before. Dief received 54 per cent of the vote while Pearson had to settle for 34 per cent.
Years later, writing in his memoirs about election night, Pearson was still able to find some humour when looking back on the evening. “My wife,” he wrote, “who until that time had stood up bravely to the evidence of a great defeat, finally broke down. ‘We’ve lost everything,’ she moaned, ‘we’ve even won our own constituency!’”Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon.
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