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Robert Laird Borden

The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Borden
GCMG PC KC
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8th Prime Minister of Canada
In office
October 10, 1911 – July 10, 1920
Monarch George V
Governor-General
Preceded by Wilfrid Laurier
Succeeded by Arthur Meighen
Personal details
Born Robert Laird Borden
(1854-06-26)June 26, 1854
Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died June 10, 1937(1937-06-10) (aged 82)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Resting place Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario
Political party
Spouse(s) Laura Bond (m. 1889; his death 1937)
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Sir Robert Laird Borden, GCMG PC KC (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911, to July 10, 1920, and was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office. After retiring from public life, he served as the chancellor of Queen's University. His portrait appears on Canadian $100 notes produced since 1976 but in late 2016 the government announced Borden's image would be removed during the next redesign.

Robert Laird Borden was born and educated in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, a farming community at the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley, where his great-grandfather Perry Borden, Sr. of Tiverton, Rhode Island, had taken up Acadian land in 1760 as one of the New England Planters. Also arriving in this group was a great great grandfather, Robert Denison, who had come from Connecticut at about the same time. Perry had accompanied his father, Samuel Borden, the chief surveyor chosen by the government of Massachusetts to survey the former Acadian land and draw up new lots for the Planters in Nova Scotia. Robert Borden was the last Canadian Prime Minister born before Confederation.

Borden's father Andrew Borden was judged by his son to be "a man of good ability and excellent judgement", of a "calm, contemplative and philosophical" turn of mind, but "he lacked energy and had no great aptitude for affairs". His mother Eunice Jane Laird was more driven, possessing "very strong character, remarkable energy, high ambition and unusual ability". Her ambition was transmitted to her first-born child, who applied himself to his studies while assisting his parents with the farm work he found so disagreeable. His cousin Sir Frederick Borden was a prominent Liberal politician.


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