The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Laird Borden
THE POLITICAL POWER
- 10 October 1911 - 12 October 1917
- 12 October 1917 - 10 July 1920
BORN
- 26 June 1854, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia
EDUCATION
- Acacia Villa Academy, Horton, Nova Scotia
PERSONAL STATUS
- Married 1889, Laura Bond (1863 - 1940)
OCCUPATION
- Teacher, at age 14, of classics and mathematics at private academies in Nova Scotia and New Jersey
- 1874 Articled law clerk in Halifax (called to the Bar in 1878)
- 1890 Became head of a large Halifax law firm
- 1924 - 1930 Chancellor, Queen's University
- 1928 Appointed President, Crown Life Insurance Company
- 1930 President, Canadian Historical Association
- Author
PARTY
- Conservative
- 1901 - 1920 Party Leader
- 1917 - 1920 Union Government (A coalition of pro-conscription Liberals and Conservatives)
CONSTITUENCIES
- 1896 - 1904, 1908 - 1917 Halifax, Nova Scotia
- 1905 - 1908 Carleton, Ontario
- 1917 - 1920 Kings County, Nova Scotia
OTHER MINISTRIES
- 1911 - 1917 President of the Privy Council
- 1912 - 1920 External Affairs
POLITICAL RECORD
- War Measures Act 1914
- Wartime Business Profits Tax 1916
- Income War Tax Act 1917
- Military Service Act 1917
- Principal author of Resolution IX of the 1917 Imperial War Conference
- Leader of Canadian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference 1919
- Led Canada as Prime Minister throughout First World War 1914 -1918
DIED
- 10 June 1937, Ottawa, Ontario
BURIED
- Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario
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