Robert Borden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Borden

8th prime minister of Canada

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1854

Place of Birth: Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1937

Profession: lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Robert Borden

  • Sir Robert Laird Borden (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada, in office from 1911 to 1920.
  • He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I. Borden was born in Grand-PrĂ©, Nova Scotia.
  • He worked as a schoolteacher for a period and then served his articles of clerkship at a Halifax law firm.
  • He was called to the bar in 1878, and soon became one of Nova Scotia's most prominent barristers.
  • Borden was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1896, representing the Conservative Party.
  • He replaced Charles Tupper as party leader in 1901, and became prime minister after the party's victory at the 1911 federal election. As prime minister, Borden led Canada through World War I and its immediate aftermath.
  • His government passed the War Measures Act, created the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and eventually introduced compulsory military service, which sparked the 1917 conscription crisis.
  • On the home front, it dealt with the consequences of the Halifax Explosion, introduced women's suffrage for federal elections, and used the North-West Mounted Police to break up the 1919 Winnipeg general strike.
  • For the 1917 federal election (the first in six years), Borden created the Unionist Party, an amalgam of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals; his government was re-elected with an overwhelming majority. Borden retired from politics in 1920, having accepted a knighthood in 1915 – the last Canadian prime minister to be knighted.
  • He was also the last prime minister born before Confederation, and is the most recent Nova Scotian to hold the office.
  • His portrait has appeared on Canadian one hundred-dollar notes produced since 1976, but in late 2016 the government announced Borden's image would be removed during the next redesign.

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