Sir Robert Borden: Canada

· Haus Publishing
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About this ebook

Sir Robert Borden was Plenipotentiary of Canada at the Peace Conference. With the Versailles Treaty ratified by the Canadian Parliament, Borden largely believed his work was done. He retired as Prime Minister in 1920. Although Borden died in 1937, the great legacy for Canada that derived from Borden's attitudes towards the role of the Dominions in international affairs was the drive towards a constitutional recognition of Canada's international position. Canada's control of its own foreign policy was finally confirmed in a declaration by Arthur Balfour in 1926 and the Statute of Westminster in 1931 that created the British Commonwealth of Nations. Borden helped to produce a Canada with an autonomous and independent foreign policy, the seeds of this work led to the growth of a vigorous foreign policy for Canada within a United Nations and its specialised agencies.

About the author

Martin Thornton is a senior lecturer in International History and Politics at the University of Leeds, where he is affiliated to the Centre for Canadian Studies there. He researches early Cold War history and 20th century Canadian and American foreign policy. His published work has covered: Canada and the early Cold War; American foreign policy; Aboriginal People in Canada; and Nancy Astor. He teaches on Canadian foreign policy since 1939 and international history since 1919. His publications include 'Canadian Perspectives and Concerns about the Wider World Britain and the Partitions of Palestine, 1946–8', Journal of American and Canadian Studies, 23, pp.41–64 (2006) and ‘Conflict and Consensus in Anglo-Canadian Relations: Winston Churchill’s Views on the Restructuring of International Affairs, 1943–1949’, in: Professor Neil Wynn (ed.) Proceedings of a Transatlantic Studies Conference held at Maastricht, 2006.

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