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Sir Robert Laird Borden
Prime Minister of Canada
1911 – 1920
Photographs of
Monument
Grand Pre
Kings County
Nova Scotia
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
Google map
Sir Robert Borden monument
Grand Pre, Kings County, Nova Scotia
Photographed on 30 September 2002
Sir Robert Borden plaque, Grand Pre
Plaque installed 1954
Photographed on 11 December 2002
Looking across Highway 1 from the Irving service station
Photographed on 18 June 2007
Map showing the location of the Sir Robert Borden monument
Grand Pre, Kings County, Nova Scotia
Roads are shown as they were in 1956. Except for Highway 101, the
layout of the roads in 2006 has not changed much from that shown here.
Planter 2010 Celebration in Nova Scotia
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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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 I 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
Links to Relevant Websites
Sir Robert Laird Borden by Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42133
Sir Robert Laird Borden by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden by Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/history/borden-en.asp
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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The Wayback Machine has archived copies of this webpage from the early days:
Sir Robert Laird Borden
Archived: 2004 June 30
http://web.archive.org/web/20040630083158/http://www.newscotland1398.net/kingsco/borden_rl.html
Archived: 2004 October 10
http://web.archive.org/web/20041010035506/http://www.newscotland1398.net/kingsco/borden_rl.html
Archived: 2005 March 09
http://web.archive.org/web/20050309070041/http://www.newscotland1398.net/kingsco/borden_rl.html
Archived: 2005 October 26
http://web.archive.org/web/20051026123956/http://newscotland1398.net/kingsco/borden_rl.html
Archived: 2006 February 07
http://web.archive.org/web/20060207134345/http://www.newscotland1398.net/kingsco/borden_rl.html
These links were accessed and found to be valid on 11 September 2007.
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Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
http://ns1763.ca/remem/plaques.html
Harold Borden monument, 1900 Canning
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_h.html
Sir Frederick Borden tombstone Hillaton
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/bordenfw.html
Monument: 1747 Attack at Grand Pre Grand Pre
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/attack1747.html
Planters monument Horton Landing
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/plantermon.html
Acacia Villa School monument Hortonville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/avschool.html
J.F. Herbin memorial Grand Pre
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/herbin_jf.html
1967 Willow Park plaque Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wolfwillow.html
Abraham Gesner monument Chipman Corner
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/gesnermem.html
Acadia U. Memorial Gym Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/acadiamemgym.html
Wolfville war memorial
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wolfmem.html
Canning war memorial
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/cannmem.html
Kentville Legion war memorial Kentville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/kentlegion.html
Kentville Memorial Park Kentville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/kentmem.html
Sheffield Mills war memorial Sheffield Mills
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/sheffieldmills.html
North Mountain airplane crash memorial Brow of Mountain
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/browmtn.html
Alfred Fuller memorial Somerset
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/fullermon.html
Hants County war memorial Windsor
http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/hantsco2wwmem.html
Ellershouse war memorial
http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/ellermem.html
Mount Uniacke war memorial
http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/uniacmem.html
Halifax war memorial The Cenotaph, Grand Parade
http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/hfxwarmem.html
Welsford-Parker monument, Crimean War Halifax
http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/crimeamon.html
Arthur W.H. Eaton tombstone Kentville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/eatonawh.html
Marguerite Woodworth tombstone Church Street
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/woodworth.html
Prescott House Starrs Point
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/prescottcr.html
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http://alts.net/ns1625/railways.html
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http://alts.net/ns1625/electric.html
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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
Latest update: 2010 May 10