Olive Diefenbaker

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Olive Evangeline Freeman Palmer Diefenbaker (born 1902, Roland, Manitoba - died December 22, 1976) was the second wife of John George Diefenbaker, the 13th Prime Minister of Canada. (John Diefenbaker's first wife, Edna Brower Diefenbaker, died in 1950.)

John Diefenbaker and Olive Freeman Palmer married in 1952. They had no children [1] but raised a daughter from her previous marriage to Toronto solicitor Harry Palmer, who died less than three years after the birth of the child.

On her husband's death in 1979, her remains, buried in 1976 in Ottawa, were reburied in Saskatoon in 1979.

[edit] Legacy

Olive Diefenbaker Drive in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is named in her honour.

[edit] See also

• Spouses of the Prime Ministers of Canada

Preceded by Jeanne Renault Saint-Laurent

Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada 1957-1963

Succeeded by Maryon Moody Pearson