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b. 11 May 1851 in Port Hope, Upper Canada
*. Sir Robert Borden, whom Meighen had replaced in 1920, had been displeased
and a member of the Privy Council of Canada. The Liberals lost to Robert Laird Borden
LAC, R4694-0-8. Times (London), 7 May 1938. R. L. Borden, Robert Laird Borden: his memoirs, ed. Henry Borden (2v., Toronto, 1938), 2. R. C. Brown, Robert Laird
(Émérence) Chartier (Chartier-Robert); d. 20 Nov. 1933 in The Pas, Man.
Soon after his birth Ovide Charlebois, the seventh of 14
Speakman*]. After the Liberals fell in the general election of 1911, however, Robert Laird
Borden*, the minister of militia and defence in Sir
Borden’s Conservatives.
When the thorny question of the navy [see Sir Robert Laird Borden; Sir Wilfrid Laurier] came definitively
Robert Laird Borden, who would later recall that on
friend Sir Robert Borden retired in 1920, and Curry lost much of his corporate leverage. His waning
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
. C. Brown, Robert Laird Borden, a biography (2v., Toronto, 1975