Derided as a buffoon and an ignorant civilian by military critics, Borden became the public's lightning rod and Prime Minster Wilfrid Laurier's point man for negotiating Canada's sensitive military ag
The Boer War in South Africa was Canada’s first trial by fire. The pre-eminent superpower of the day, Great Britain, had decided to wage one of its ‘little wars’ against two white Protestant Dutch-spe
