I. Introduction Print section Borden, Sir Robert Laird (1854-1937), eighth prime minister of Canada (1911-1920). Borden led the Canadian government during the critical years of World War I (1914-1918), when Canada was coming to political and economic maturity. His broad vision and sound judgment made him an effective leader in these difficult years. He was often opposed within his own party, but his fairness and his ability to grasp the facts of an issue kept …showed first 75 words of 3168 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3168 total…the University of Toronto and at the University of Oxford. The Toronto lectures were published in 1921 as Canadian Constitutional Studies. The Oxford lectures were published in 1929 as Canada in the Commonwealth. In 1912 Borden was sworn in as a member of the imperial Privy Council. He was chancellor of McGill University from 1918 to 1920 and of Queen's University at Kingston from 1924 to 1930. Borden died in 1937, and his Memoirs were published posthumously the following year.