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Robert Borden had an interest and involvement in imperial naval affairs that was largely forced upon him with the introduction into law in Canada of the Naval Service Act of 1910. This Canadian legislation was introduced against a background of changing international naval issues. Borden’s interest was heightened by a perceived international naval crisis derived from analysis of the British Government that began in 1909 but developed in the years 1911 and 1912. Winston Churchill’s pronouncements as First Lord of the Admiralty in this period and in particular his increasing interest in the role of the Dominions in issues related to an imperial navy brought Borden to further consider detailed naval matters.
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C. P. Stacey, Canada and the Age of Conflict, Volume 1, 1867–1921 (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1977), p. 153.
K. Saunders, Robert Borden (Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, 1978), p. 28. E. Beaulieu and J. C. H. Emery argue that ‘… in the absence of opposition from pork packers, particularly in Quebec, Laurier would have retained his majority mandate’, in ‘Pork Packers, Reciprocity and Laurier’s Defeat in the 1911 Canadian General Election’, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 61, No. 4 (December 2001), p. 1083.
P. G. Wigley, Canada and the Transition to Commonwealth: British-Canadian Relations 1917–26 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), p. 42. The founders of the academic journal, The Round Table were Lord Milner, Geoffrey Dawson, Phillip Kerr and Lionel Curtis.
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Thornton, M. (2013). Robert L. Borden, Canadian Naval Issues and His Visit to Great Britain of 1912. In: Churchill, Borden and Anglo-Canadian Naval Relations, 1911–14. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300874_4
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