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The embattled leader of Canada’s federal Conservatives, Robert Borden, submitted his resignation to his caucus on this day in 1905. A few weeks before, in November 1904, he and his party had gone down to defeat at the hands of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberals. Borden even lost his own seat.
“Under the conditions which have ensued,” Borden wrote his caucus on this date in 1905, “it is necessary that you shall choose another leader. My resignation has already been given informally. I now place it unreservedly in your hands with every assurance of my hearty cooperation in the ranks of the party. Let me add that the happy remembrance of your loyal support and comradeship will always abide with me.
Borden’s caucus, however, unanimously rejected their leader’s resignation and the Nova Scotian would live on to fight the Grits again. He became Prime Minister in 1911.is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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