John Diefenbaker (1895 - 1979) was born in Ontario, but his family moved to Borden,Saskatchewan in 1903, when John was 8 years old. He was elected to Parliament thirteen times (1940 - 1979) until his death in 1979. As leader of the Progressive Conservative party, he became Canada's Prime Minister in 1957. He was Canada's 13th Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. He introduced the Canadian Bill of Rights and extended the vote to include Native peoples. During his time as Prime Minister he was also the first to appoint a woman to the federal cabinet. The Diefenbaker Canada Center in Saskatoon (at the University of Sask.) contains his official papers and collections and replicas of his office and the Privy Council Chamber. The Diefenbaker Homestead is on the grounds of Wascana Park in Regina near the Legislative Building.