Sir Robert Borden monument
Grand Pre, Kings County, Nova Scotia
Photographed on 30 September 2002
Located on the south side of Highway One at the Grand Pre intersection,
opposite the Irving service station
GPS location: 45°06'10"N 64°18'18"W
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Photographed on 30 September 2002
Photographed on 11 December 2002
Photographed on 18 June 2007
Roads are shown as they were in 1956. Except for Highway 101, the
layout of the roads in 2013 has not changed much from that shown here.
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Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden, a great internationalist,
was the chief architect of Canada's independence. — Heath Macquarrie, emeritus senator, in a letter to the editor printed in The Globe and Mail on 4 January 2000. |
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Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920, was born at Grand Pre, Kings County, Nova Scotia, on 26 June 1854; he died at Ottawa on 10 June 1937. He was a leading figure in the achievement of Dominion Status, and in the transition from the British Empire to the British Commonwealth of Nations. His leadership during World War One was remarkable... [The Canadian Encyclopedia, Year 2000 Edition McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, 1999] |
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Prime Minister Robert Borden is long forgotten but shouldn't be.
To elevate the country from colonial status, Canada had to show its mettle on the battlefields. Borden was a tough war leader who capitalized on the valour of our fighting men in the First World War to secure greater independence from the empire. — Lawrence Martin in The Globe and Mail on 16 April 2013. |
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Robert Borden's leadership was among the most significant by
any of Canada's early leaders. It fell on his shoulders to lead Canada through the trials and tribulations of the First World War. A generation of young Canadians gave their lives in the mud and bloody despair of the European trenches between 1914 and 1918. In crafting the peace, however, Sir Robert did not break faith with them, insisting that at Versailles, Canada would sign the treaty that ended the war as a proud and independent nation. At Paris in 1919, with the eyes of the world's leaders upon him, Sir Robert Borden did just that, putting Canada firmly on the road to full nationhood. Some of his own supporters, in fact, feared Borden was advancing the cause of Canadian sovereignty and nationhood too far and too fast. The eighth prime minister would have none of it. That is perhaps his greatest accomplishment...
— Robert Borden, Canada’s forgotten giant
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Former Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative MP and parliamentary secretary Heath Macquarrie — before 1957 he was a history professor at St. Dunstan's (now the University of Prince Edward Island) – could make history live. I will never forget an afternoon in 1960 when, over rum and cokes, he kept me wide-eyed with his sweep of World War One and Canada's role at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Heath said that, two years later, in 1919, at the Versailles' Peace Talks, Prime Minister Robert Borden told the British there would be no back seat for Canada at the peace table when she had a front-row seat at Vimy Ridge.
– Pat MacAdam's column "Victory Set in Stone" in the Ottawa Sun, 8 April 2007
Canada's eighth Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden,
made his first appearance on Canada's $100 bill in 1961.
– The Globe and Mail, page F10, 25 June 2011
Links to Relevant WebsitesSir Robert Laird Borden by Dictionary of Canadian Biography Onlinehttp://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42133 Sir Robert Laird Borden by Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Borden |
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New England Planters And Borden Genealogy Berwick Register, 1 July 1954
"...a monument is being constructed at Grand Pre to commemorate the centennial of his birth on the 26th of this month of June..." (1954) http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbrnep/leoracrosswork5.htm (This is the monument seen above.) |
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In the above monthly hits report, note the large traffic component attributable to students.
First uploaded to the WWW: 2002 October 02
New photograph installed: 2002 December 18
New photograph installed: 2007 June 24
Added Google Map link: 2007 December 23
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