This sub-series consists mainly of subject files and nominal files.
Unlike other Personal and Confidential sub-series, which form discrete, if poorly organized units, the files in the Miscellaneous sub-series come from a variety of sources and were not the responsibility of one particular assistant or secretary.
Subjects vary widely and include, among others, agriculture; appointments; armed forces unification; Atlantic Development Board; automotive industries; banking; Cabinet; Columbia River Project; coal; civil service; Central Mortage and Housing Corporation; capital punishment; Commonwealth Economic Consultative Council; Commonwealth Education Conference; Commonwealth Law Institute; Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference 1953; Commonwealth Trade and Economic Conference; Commonwealth Youth Movement; Corporations and Labour Unions Returns Act; Couchiching Conference; Defence - acquisition of nuclear weapons; Defence - air defence systems; Defence - Canada - U.S. Production Sharing Program; Defence - Exercise "Broadsword"; Defence - Exercise Toscin B; John G. Diefenbaker's finances, personal records and notes; Economic Council of Canada; economy; economy - balance of payments; economy - foreign exchange crisis; elections; elections in Prince Albert constituency; energy from coal, oil and gas; ethnic groups; European Economic Community; External Affairs; federal - provincial relations; Foreign Affairs; foreign aid; General Agreement on Taraiffs and Trade; House of Commons; Industrial Development Bank; labour; labour - CPR shipping strike; labour - Winter Works Program; international trade; Law of the Sea Conference; Liberal government; Liberal Party; Manitoba flood control; Masons; municipal government; NATO; NORAD; Newfoundland loggers strike; Northern Affairs and National Resources; Ontario Pension Benefits Act; nuclear weapons testing; nuclear weapons - ACCRA Assembly; Peace River, Prime Minister's Office staff; Prince Albert constituency; Progressive Conservative government - advertising, Progressive Conservative government - defeat, Progressive Conservative government - legislative program; Progressive Conservative Party; Progressive Conservative Party leadership conventions; Progressive Conservative Party policy recommendations; railways; railways - labour disputes; railways - CNR pensions; Saskatchewan - disallowance of legislation; Saskatchewan - elections; security - public service; Senate reform, South Saskatchewan Dam; speeches; social welfare; trade - China; trade - U.K.; trade - U.S; Trans-Canada Power Grid; transportation; trips and engagements; unemployment; United Nations Wheat Conference; United Nations World Food Programme; University of Saskatchewan; World's Fair; Veterans Affairs; and youth.
The sub-series includes more than 120 files titled with the names of individuals including the Hon. William Brent, and Jack Cauley. Most are names of Canadian politicians or prominent citizens. A few are foreign dignitaries.
