Fonds consists of pre-parliamentary series, 1920-1946; parliamentary series, 1945-1963; leadership compaign, 1967, series, 1952, 1966-1968; post-parliamentary series, 1963-1968; memoir series, 1957-1982; clippings series, 1956-1963. Photographic material depicts the activities of the Honourable Donald M. Fleming; the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Rome, Greece, and London, England, 1948; the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Cross Canada Tour, 1952; the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Kenya and Uganda, 1954, with such images as opening ceremonies and dinners; photographs with Donald Fleming, George Drew, George Hees, and John Diefenbaker; at a Polymer rubber plant in Sarnia, Ontario, 1961; the first Valiant car rolling off the Windsor Chrysler assembly line, 1959. aThe collection also consists of 8 maps dealing with electoral districts in Ontario including Eglinton, York West, York North, York-Sunbury, the city of Toronto and vicinity and the province as a whole. The maps are dated between 1934 and 1952 with several specifically related to the Representation Act of 1947. The remainder of the collection consists of material Fleming gathered during his term as a member of parliament. This consists of a blueprint (4 sheets) for post war housing for veterans, a report and maps on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep waterway, and an atlas of the sacrifices of Greece in the Secord World War. There is also on plan of the Bank of Canada Building in Vancouver from 1961, and a map of "Ottawa and Environs and Gatineau Park, " from 1958.
Fleming, Donald M. (Donald Methuen), 1905-1986 : The Hon. Donald Methuen Fleming, Member of Parliament, Solicitor General, born at Exeter, Ont. on 23 May 1905, received his education from the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1928, and practised law with the firm Kingsmill, Mills, Price and Fleming, 1929-1957. He served Toronto in municipal politics as a representative for Eglinton, 1938-1945, a school trustee, 1938, and an alderman, 1939-1944. On city council, Fleming led the cause of city planning and social welfare through his membership on committees for Civic Property, Civic Works, City Planning, and Public Welfare.
Fleming served in the House of Commons representing Eglinton, 1945-1963. As a member of Opposition, he was spokesman on Welfare and Social Security, 1945-1950, on Housing and on Radio Broadcasting, 1945-1956, on Trade and Commerce and on Defence Production, 1951-1956. As a member of the Government, Fleming served as Minister of Finance, Minister of Insurance and Receiver General of Canada. Later, in August 1962, he became Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada and Solicitor General. He ran unsucessfully for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party, 1948, 1956, 1967.
After leaving politics, Fleming held a position with the Bank of Nova Scotia as managing director of their trust companies in Nassau and surrounding islands, 1968-1980. He returned to Canada in 1985.
