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Most historians will agree that Lester B. Pearson, Brian Mulroney and Sir Robert Borden wrote the most comprehensive political and personal memoirs of our past national leaders. Borden’s two volumes, published after his 1937 death, were a decade-long project for Canada’s 8Prime Minister.
He was weighty but not a happy warrior. The futilities of ill-considered discussions irked him. Waste of time in Parliament or in Council was a burden for him to endure. When he came to a conclusion as to what was in the public interest, he wanted that thing done and was impatient of restraints imposed by the clamourings of what the press calls “public opinion” …
His mind was essentially constructive, but he was able to see the reverse as well as the inviting side of any project and to weigh its advantages and disadvantages the one against the other. The soundness of his judgment will, as time goes on, be more and more impressed on the student of that harrowing period when he was at the head of affairs.
Once he entered the lists he feared no foe; he stood to his part in form worthy of a leader’s role; but his highest title to the esteem of his countrymen will be his record as a man of action. It cannot be said that Sir Robert Borden chose to be of the latter class, but such was the disposition of fate. An overwrought nervous system, which an iron will had held to the post of duty through heavy, torturing years, at last gave definite signals which could not go unheeded. As the summer of 1920 opened, retirement became inevitable.
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