Conservatives under Robert Laird Borden. The Tories believed that there had been
friend Sir Robert Borden retired in 1920, and Curry lost much of his corporate leverage. His waning
election before the reference was made. His successor, Robert Laird Borden
Mary Helena Blackadar, an alumna of Acadia University, a Baptist institution of higher learning in Wolfville, N.S. Acadia had graduated its first African Canadian, Edwin Howard Borden, in 1892. It seems
colleague Robert Alexander Ross, Butler had large ideas about the role of
Durnford and Glenn Harry Baechler observe, “and wanted others to do the same.” In 1899 he made possibly the first used-car purchase in the country, buying a Winton from his friend James Robert
Bedford, Manitoba’s deputy minister of agriculture and immigration, and politicians such as Robert
Sir Robert Laird
SMART, CHARLES ALLAN, businessman, militia and army officer, and politician; b. 23 March 1868 in Montreal, son of Robert
followed in his father’s footsteps, building assiduously on the family’s political credentials. The conscription crisis of 1917 [see Sir Robert Laird
Robert Borden fonds (R6113-0-X), the Arthur Meighen fonds (R14423-0-6), and the R. B. Bennett fonds (R11336-0-7) (mfm.). The most instructive, the Bennett papers, document Stewart’s campaign to