Robert Borden

"'Our hearts are united in inflexible determination, that the cause for which we have drawn the sword shall be maintained to honour and triumph.' - Sir Robert Borden"Sir Robert Borden, KCMG KC PC (26, June, 1854 - 10, June, 1937) was a British barrister, diplomat, farmer, politician, soldier, statesman and teacher. During his career, Borden served as the eighth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, the third Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the twentieth President of His Majesty's Privy Council and Chancellor of the Queen's University of Kingston.

Borden's administration deployed air, military and naval forces to Anatolia, Belgium, France, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Persia and Russia during the eighteenth European Coalition War in service of Emperor George V, established the Bureau of Statistics, the Canadian Expeditionary Force and the National Research Institute of the Dominion of Canada, funded the expansion of imperial naval forces in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dominion of Canada, mandated military service for the adult male population, nationalised trans-continental railway services and preserved the Dominion's ethnic homogeneity.

Borden personally approved the deployment of troops during the suppression of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, drafted Resolution IX of the Imperial Conference Agreement of 1919, a clause consigning a role in dictating imperial foreign policy to the Anglo-Saxon Dominions of the British Empire, introduced the Military Service Act of 1917 and Income War Tax Act of 1917 to the House of Commons, lead the delegation for the Dominion of Canada at the League of Nations Peace Conference of 1919 in Paris and the Allied Naval Conference of 1922 in Washington and signed the League of Nations Peace Treaty of 1919 at Versailles and the Allied Naval Treaty of 1922 at Washington on behalf of the Dominion of Canada.

Trivia

 * Borden was among the most prolific businessmen of his time, serving as the Chancellor of the Queen's University of Kingston and McGill University, President of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Barclays Bank, the Crown Life Insurance Company and a founding member of the Barristers' Association of the Dominion of Canada.
 * Borden descended from New England planters who settled Nova Scotia after the Acadian expulsion.
 * Borden was as a Freemason in St. Andrew's Lodge No.1 of the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia.
 * Borden was multilingual and fluent in English, German, Greek, Hebrew and Latin.