Robert Borden

2014-12-29

[...] who fought there — the pool of volunteers had largely dried up. Prime Minister Robert Borden’s government responded with legislation to conscript young men for overseas military [...]

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ww1.canada.com

2014-11-21

[...] strenuously rebutting what amounted to ethnic slurs from Currie and Stevens. Prime Minister Robert Borden followed and rebuked his own caucus-members in unambiguous strictures. It is generally [...]

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ww1.canada.com

2014-11-06

[...] white race to join.” This so infuriated White that he wrote a letter to then-prime minister Robert Borden to express his disdain. White got the whole community behind him plus the support of many [...]

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ww1.canada.com

2014-10-20

[...] , Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He was the one who really saved the country in a way. Sir Robert Borden, the prime minister, was a very fine man, a very estimable man, but not an imaginative [...]

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ww1.canada.com

2014-10-01

[...] to the continuing recruitment of francophones. On Sept. 25, Mignault wrote Prime Minister Robert Borden about “the desire of many of my fellow citizens of French extraction to fight for England and [...]

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ww1.canada.com

2014-07-25

[...] the war dragged on, with staggering loss of life, enrolment sagged, and Prime Minister Robert Borden turned to conscription — the main issue in the bitterly fought election of December 1917, [...]

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ww1.canada.com

2014-07-25

[...]  German two-seatobservation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front. 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is [...]

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iezombie.com

2014-07-18

[...] Belgium and executing Nurse Edith Cavell to dream of global comity, and Prime Minister Robert Borden was vowing to an audience in Halifax that Canada: “Will fight to the death against the [...]

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ww1.canada.com

2014-07-04

[...] declares war on Germany. Aug. 22, 1914 The Canadian government of Prime Minister Robert Borden passes the War Measures Act and employs orders in council to imprison so-called “ [...]

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