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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.

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Joseph Dillon, stonecarver/sculptor, Gananoque, Ont.

Michael DiGirolamo is a photographer.

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.

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.

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

Dicks & Co. was a printer active in St John Newfoundland.