Best Tourist Attraction : Diefenbaker House Museum
The votes are in and Prince Albert residents agree that the Diefenbaker House Museum and former home of Canada’s 13th Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker is Prince Albert’s Best Tourist Attraction.
Diefenbaker lived in the house located at 246 – 19th St. W., from 1947 to 1957.
Diefenbaker was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963, and he was also a respected and well-known member of the Prince Albert community. He served as Prince Albert’s Member of Parliament from 1953 until his death in 1979.
The Diefenbaker House Museum is open only during the summer months and gets an estimated 1,600 visitors per year. It is a guided tour that gives those visitors the opportunity to learn more about Diefenbaker’s private life.