A museum dedicated to John Diefenbaker has decided to give a man who suspects he’s the former prime minister’s only child access to its artifacts for D-N-A testing.
George Dryden, who is 42, says he became aware last year of long-time family whispers that Canada’s 13th prime minister — to whom he bears a strong resemblance — was his real father.
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Dryden is now arranging a trip with a testing company to the Saskatoon-based Diefenbaker Canada Centre.
“I am confident that they’ll be able to get a sample off something,” said Dryden. “There’s over five-thousand artifacts at the Diefenbaker Centre … including things like hats, bedding, clothing so I would think out of one of those items we should be able to get a sample.”
The Toronto resident found out in June that the man he believed to be his dad was not his biological parent, then his mother then told him his father’s name was John, but did not directly confirm having had an affair with the former prime minister.
With files from The Canadian Press
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