Subseries L1.1 contains letters to and from institutions including associations, government bodies, religious bodies, and educational fixtures such as universities and colleges.

This subseries contains correspondence between Diefenbaker and clients, or prospective clients, seeking legal advice on a wide range of topics. Many files are incomplete and it is impossible to determine the outcome of the case. There are also files of miscellaneous documents relating not only to the Requests for Assistance Subseries, but to the Case Files Subseries and the Collections Subseries.

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

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.

This subseries contains drafts, Diefenbaker’s own notes, and background material for the memoirs.

This subseries consists of draft documents denoted by an “A” and a number in the top right corner. The subject matter varies greatly and includes: the Temperance Colony Trail, the Moose Jaw - Red Deer Forks Cart-Trail, Ted and Harry Heath, Reverend Charles Hillyer, prairie fires, Mary Mercer and early homesteading, Buffalo Pound Lake, Dr. Thomas Roddick, Michael Oxarart, Maggie Buchanan, Professor Macoun, the Coventry Settlement, Charles Edwards, Camp Norris, Cowboys, and Bronc Horses.

This subseries consists of draft documents denoted by an “E” and a number in the top right corner. The subject matter varies greatly and includes: the Methodist Church, the proposed hydroelectric dam at Moose Jaw Creek, William Walsh and early fire protection, Medicine in the 1890s, bicycles, Lady Macdonald, Curling, the “Return Rebate Marriage Certificate”, the Winter of 1887, Buckoll and Kennedy, the Winter of 1906-1907, Moose Jaw’s first public celebration, early zoological discoveries, early tree planting, the Huron Church, and James Morrison.

This subseries consists of draft documents denoted by an “L” and a number in the top right corner. The subject matter varies greatly and includes: the Battell Party, Reverend John Paine Sargent, rail construction in 1882, Mrs. Card, the Spight-Monarch dinner tradition, the first settlers, British journalists visiting in 1907, the steam pumper accident, Henry Battell House, the Wood Mountain robe trade of 1884, the 1907 royal visit, the fire department’s first automobile, the 1907 plans for the new city hall, the Moose Jaw Homeguard, the Moose Hotel, Kingsway Park, pollution in 1913, and automobiles of Moose Jaw.

This subseries consists of draft documents denoted by an “O” and a number in the top right corner. The subject matter varies greatly and includes: early health concerns, the D’Jazz Billiard Hall, Harry Hind and Shortstick, prohibition tales, the 1920 pedestrian bylaw, flapper girls in the 1920s, the 46th Battalion crosses, Moose Jaw’s first murder, Kingsway Park, the streetcar workers’ strike of 191, James Morrison, Montague Henry White-Fraser, the 1919 royal visit, the 1905 April Fool’s Day explosion, the March 11, 1892 Fire, the dwindling buffalo herds, photographing of the Sioux, the Grain Growers Association, the Riverside Hotel, train wrecks, locusts, Richard Bogue’s acetylene light plant, Boer War volunteers, settler ingenuity, Inspector O.H. Sackrider, early scam artists, the Allan-Cumming Department Store, the Market Hall, the 1913 Boharm shooting incident, the 1913 Streetcar Storage Building, the GTP and Canadian Northern proposed rail depots, Moose Jaw’s first stampede, and the Moose Jaw Flying Club.

This subseries contains the annual reports of the elections of the club.

This subseries contains the district and committee reports of the club.

This subseries contains the club’s annual reports to its members.