Frederick William Borden

Frederick William Borden

Sir Frederick William Borden, PC (May 14 1847 – January 6 1917) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the son of Dr. Jonathan Borden and Maria Frances Brown. Borden received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of King's Collegein Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1866. He joined the militia as a cadet at King’s College and then as an assistant surgeon in the 68th (Kings) Battalion of Infantry in 1869. He earned a M.D. in 1868 from Harvard University. He practiced as a physician in Canning, Nova Scotia.

He entered politics in 1874 with election as a Liberal member from Kings County, Nova Scotia; aside from an interruption 1882–1887, he represented this constituency until 1911. He was Minister of militia and defence from 1896–1911, and was instrumental in raising the services from appendages of Britain to forces in their own right. The Royal Military College of Canada was reformed and senior officers were for advanced training to Britain. He increased pay and retirement benefits, equipped the militia with modern weapons, established rules regulating tenure of command, and decentralized command and administration. CFB Borden was named in his honour when the air base was founded in 1916. He is the cousin of the eighth Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden. Borden was created a KCMG in 1902. He died in Canning in 1917.

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* [http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Borden,+William Annotated bibliography for Frederick William Borden from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues]
* [http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/bordenfw.html Photographs of Frederick Borden's tombstone]

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years=1887–1911


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