Robert Borden
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Sir Robert Laird Borden (June 26, 1854- 1937), a Canadian lawyer and politician, was the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920.
Borden was born in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, and is best known for his efforts in Canada during World War I.
He served as a schoolteacher for a time and then served his clerkship at a Halifax law firm.
In 1878, he was called to the bar and soon became Nova Scotia's most popular barrister.
Borden was elected to the House of Commons in 1896, representing the Conservative Party.
After the party's victory at the 1911 federal election, he named Charles Tupper as the party's leader in 1901 and became prime minister. Borden, the prime minister, ruled Canada during World War I and its immediate aftermath.
The War Measures Act was passed by his government, which established the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and later introduced compulsory military service, which caused the 1917 conscription crisis.
It dealt with the aftermath of the 1917 Winnipeg general strike, introduced women's suffrage for federal elections, and used the North Mounted Police to break up the 1919 Winnipeg general strike.
Borden founded the Unionist Party, a blend of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals, winning with an overwhelming majority in 1917, the first in six years; his government was re-elected with a landslide. Borden retired from politics in 1920 after receiving a knighthood in 1915 – the last prime minister to be knighted.
He was also the last prime minister born before Confederation, and he is the most recent Nova Scotian to hold the office.
His portrait has appeared on Canadian one hundred-dollar notes since 1976, but the government announced in late 2016 that Borden's portrait would be deleted during the next upgrade.
Early life and career (1854–1874)
Borden, Canada's last prime minister, was born and educated in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, a farming community at the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley, before Confederation. Perry Borden Sr., his great-grandfather, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, had purchased Acadian land in this area in 1760 as one of the New England Planters. In the 1600s, the Borden family immigrated from Headcorn, Kent, England, to New England. Robert Denison, a great-great-grandfather who had arrived from Connecticut at the same time, was also included in this group. Perry accompanied Samuel Borden, Massachusetts' chief surveyor, to survey the former Acadian land and create new Planters' lots in Nova Scotia. Borden is descendant of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and he has a connection with his patrilineal ancestor Richard Borden to Innocent Cornell.
Andrew Borden's father, Andrew Borden, was judged by his son to be "a man of remarkable skill and fine judgement" as well as a "calm, reflective, and philosophical" view of mind, but "he lacked enthusiasm and had no natural gift for affairs." Eunice Jane Laird's mother was more driven, with "sustaining energy, a high passion, and an extraordinary ability." Her enthusiasm was passed on to her first-born child, who returned to his studies while assisting his parents with the farm chores, which she found so dissatisfactory. Frederick Borden, Borden's cousin, was a well-known Liberal politician.
Borden became a day student at Acacia Villa School, a local private academy, at the age of nine. The school sought to "fit boys physically, morally, and intellectually for the challenges of life." Borden also became interested in the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew languages. Borden, a 14-year-old boy, became the assistant master for classical studies. Borden started teaching classical classics and mathematics at the Glenwood Institute in Matawan, New Jersey, in late 1873. He returned to Nova Scotia in 1874, seeing no future in education.
Early political career (1896–1901)
Borden was elected as a member of Parliament (MP) in the 1896 federal election as a Conservative, campaigning in favor of his party's National Policy. However, Wilfrid Laurier led the Conservative Party as a whole.
Despite being an Ottawa MP, Borden also served in Halifax, where he first served as a member of the Royal Independence Party. He also remained faithful to Tupper. Borden served on many House committees and, with time, established himself as a central figure in the opposition.
