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Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920.
Born on June 26, 1854, in the farming community of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, he was the first child of Andrew Borden and Eunice Jane Laird.
He grew up on the family farm in the Annapolis Valley, a region settled by New England Planters after the expulsion of the Acadians.