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Sir Frederick William Borden - Canadian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Borden, Sir Frederick William (1847-1917), Canadian minister of militia and defence (1896-1911), was born at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, on May 14, 1847, the son of Dr. Jonathan Borden and Maria Frances Brown. |
 | | He was educated at King's College University, Windsor, Nova Scotia (B.A., 1866), and at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (M.A., 1868), and he practised medicine for many years at Canning, Nova Scotia. |
 | | In 1874 he was elected as a Liberal to the Canadian House of Commons for King's county, Nova Scotia ; and, except for the years 1882-7, when he was out of parliament, he continued to represent this constituency until his defeat in the general elections of 1911. |
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