10th Canadian Ministry
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The Tenth Canadian Ministry was the second cabinet
Cabinet of Canada
The Cabinet of Canada is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada...

 chaired by Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

 Sir Robert Borden. It governed Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 from 12 October 1917 to 10 July 1920, including most of the 13th Canadian Parliament
13th Canadian Parliament
The 13th Canadian Parliament was in session from March 18, 1918 until October 4, 1921. The membership was set by the 1917 federal election on December 17, 1917, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1921 election.It was controlled by...

. The government was formed by the Unionists
Unionist Party (Canada)
The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament in Canada who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War....

, a war-time coalition
Coalition government
A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament...

 between the old Conservative Party of Canada
Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

 and some members of the Liberal Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

. Borden was also Prime Minister in the Ninth Canadian Ministry.

Ministers

  • Charles Ballantyne
    Charles Ballantyne
    Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, PC was a Canadian politician.A prominent manufacturer, Ballantyne was appointed to Sir Robert Borden's World War I Union government. He served briefly as Minister of Public Works before becoming Minister of Marine and Fisheries and Minister of the Naval Service...

  • Pierre Édouard Blondin
    Pierre Édouard Blondin
    Pierre Édouard Blondin, PC was a Canadian politician.He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the Quebec riding of Champlain in 1908 and 1911...

  • Robert Borden
    Robert Borden
    Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911 to July 10, 1920, and was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office...

  • Martin Burrell
    Martin Burrell
    Martin Burrell, was a Canadian politician.Born in Faringdon, Berkshire , Burrell emigrated to Canada as a young man, where he eventually became a fruit grower on a farm about two miles east of Grand Forks, British Columbia...

  • James Alexander Calder
    James Alexander Calder
    James Alexander Calder, was a Canadian politician.Born in Oxford County, Ontario, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba in 1888. He was a teacher and principal, before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the riding of South Regina in the...

  • Frank Broadstreet Carvell
    Frank Broadstreet Carvell
    Frank Broadstreet Carvell, PC was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician.Carvell was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick. His father was a farmer descended from United Empire Loyalists and his mother was an Ulster Protestant. He was educated locally and worked as a teacher...

  • Francis Cochrane
    Francis Cochrane
    Francis Cochrane, PC was a Canadian politician.-Municipal career:A prosperous hardware merchant in Sudbury, Ontario, he was the first president of the town's board of trade and later served as mayor of the town in 1897, 1898 and 1902 after winning a council seat in 1896.Along with local...

  • Thomas Crerar
    Thomas Crerar
    Thomas Alexander Crerar, was a western Canadian politician and a leader of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada. He was born in Molesworth, Ontario, and moved to Manitoba at a young age....

  • Thomas Wilson Crothers
    Thomas Wilson Crothers
    Thomas Wilson Crothers, was a Canadian politician.Born in Northport, Canada West, he was a lawyer and teacher before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Ontario riding of Elgin West in the 1908 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1911 and as a Unionist in 1917...

  • Charles Doherty
    Charles Doherty
    Charles Joseph Doherty, PC, KC was a Canadian politician and jurist.Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Marcus Doherty, a judge of the Supreme Court for the Province of Quebec and Elizabeth Doherty, Doherty was educated at St...

  • Henry Lumley Drayton
    Henry Lumley Drayton
    Sir Henry Lumley Drayton, PC was a Canadian lawyer and politician.Born in Kingston, Ontario, the son of Philip Henry Drayton, who came to Canada with the 16th Rifles of England, and Margaret S. Covernton, Drayton was educated in the schools of England and Canada. He was called to the Ontario Bar...

  • George Eulas Foster
    George Eulas Foster
    Sir George Eulas Foster, PC, PC, GCMG was a Canadian politician and academic. He coined the phrase "splendid isolation" to describe British foreign policy in the late 19th century....

  • Hugh Guthrie
    Hugh Guthrie
    Hugh Guthrie, PC, KC was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister in the governments of Sir Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen and R. B. Bennett....

  • Albert Edward Kemp
    Albert Edward Kemp
    Sir Albert Edward Kemp, KCMG, PC was a Canadian businessman and politician. Kemp was a Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence and Minister of the Overseas Military Forces during World War I. A Conservative and Unionist, Kemp was elected five times to the Canadian House of Commons as the Member...

  • James Alexander Lougheed
    James Alexander Lougheed
    Sir James Alexander Lougheed, KCMG, PC, QC was a businessman and politician from Alberta, Canada.-Early Life:Lougheed was born in Brampton, Canada West, to Irish Protestant parents. The family moved to Weston, Canada West , when Lougheed was a child, and he attended King Street Public School Sir...

  • Alexander Kenneth Maclean
    Alexander Kenneth Maclean
    Alexander Kenneth Maclean, was a Canadian politician.Born in Upper North Sydney, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Maclean was educated at Pictou Academy and Dalhousie University...

  • Arthur Meighen
    Arthur Meighen
    Arthur Meighen, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921; and from June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding...

  • Sydney Chilton Mewburn
    Sydney Chilton Mewburn
    Sydney Chilton Mewburn, PC was a Canadian lawyer, soldier, and politician.Born in Hamilton, Canada West, he was the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence from October 12, 1917 - January 15, 1920 under Sir Robert Borden's Union Government in 1917. During World War I, he was a Major General in...

  • John Dowsley Reid
    John Dowsley Reid
    John Dowsley Reid, PC was a Canadian businessman, physician, and parliamentarian. A Conservative, he was a long-standing Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons for the Ontario Electoral district of Grenville South...

  • Gideon Robertson
    Gideon Robertson
    Gideon Decker Robertson, PC was a Canadian Senator and Canadian Cabinet minister.Robertson was a telegrapher by profession and had links with conservatives in the labour movement. In January 1917, he was appointed to the Senate as a Conservative as a means of bringing in labour representation...

  • Newton Rowell
    Newton Rowell
    Newton Wesley Rowell, PC was a Canadian lawyer and politician and leading lay figure in the Methodist church. Rowell led the Ontario Liberal Party from 1911 to 1917 and put forward a platform advocating temperance...

  • Albert Sévigny
    Albert Sévigny
    Albert Sévigny, PC was a Canadian politician.Sévigny opened a law practice in Quebec City in 1905. Two years later, he was a candidate for the Quebec Conservative Party in a provincial by-election, but was defeated. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1911 federal election...

  • Arthur Lewis Sifton
    Arthur Lewis Sifton
    Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter. Born in Ontario, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer...

  • Simon Fraser Tolmie
    Simon Fraser Tolmie
    Simon Fraser Tolmie, PC was a veterinarian, farmer, politician, and the 21st Premier of the Province of British Columbia, Canada....

  • William Thomas White
    William Thomas White
    Sir William Thomas White, KCMG, PC was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister.-Biography:White worked as a reporter for the Toronto Evening Telegram in 1890, and subsequently worked for Toronto's Assessment Department...

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