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Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937) was born at Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia. He attended Horton Academy and then taught school in New Jersey before beginning the study of law. Called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1878, Borden pursued a legal career in Halifax until political duties ended his legal practice in 1911. In the House of Commons, Borden represented Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1896 to 1904 and from 1908 to 1917, Carleton, Ontario, from 1905 to 1908, and King's, Nova Scotia, from 1917 to 1920. He was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1901 and became Prime Minister after the defeat of the Laurier government in the 1911 federal election. In the Borden ministries, 1911 to 1920, Borden was President of the Privy Council from 1911 to 1917 and Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1912 to 1920. After his retirement Borden was appointed representative of Canada at the Washington Conference, 1921-1922, and was chief Canadian delegate at the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1930 and Canadian representative on the Council of the League. He also served as Chancellor of McGill and Queen's Universities, first president of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and President of the League of Nations Society. Other notable positions included President of the Crown Life Insurance Company and Barclay's Bank (Canada).

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The Boston Evening Transcript is a newspaper.

The Botanical Society of Canada was instituted, at the initiative of George Lawson, in 1860 for the purpose of promoting the science of Botany, the study of which had previously been much neglected in Canada. The first meeting of the Society took place on December 7th, 1860. At subsequent meetings, of which there were eleven in all, papers were read and foreign members participated by sending notes. The Society also ceated a Botanical Garden. In 1863 Lawson moved to Halifax. Without his leadership the Botanical Society slowly withered and died as did the Botanical Garden.

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Edmund (Henry) Harry Botterell (1906-1997) was born in Vancouver in 1906. The family moved to Winnipeg shortly after his birth and after finishing his early schooling in Winnipeg he attended Ridley College in St. Catherines. He entered the University of Manitoba in 1926 and graduated with his M.D. in 1930. He then undertook extensive postgraduate residency and fellowship training in Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, New Haven, and London. During this period he studied under such notables as Campbell Howard, W.E. Gallie, K.G. Mackenzie, John Fulton, Frederick Banting, and Geoffrey Jefferson. In 1936, he joined K.G. Mackenzie as a junior in neurosurgery at Toronto General Hospital.

From 1940 to 1945 he served in the Canadian Armed Forces as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of neurosurgery in Basingstoke, England and was awarded the OBE for distinguished service in treating soldiers with spinal cord injuries. After the war he took a leading role in the rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. During the 1950's he turned his attention to neurosurgery and was a pioneer in the use of hypothermia in cerebral vascular surgery as well as using surgery to treat cerebral aneurysms. In 1952 he was made Head of Neurosurgery at Toronto General Hospital and instituted a residency program in neurosurgery. At an invitation from the Principal in 1962 Botterell accepted the position of Dean of Medicine at Queen's University at Kingston, a poition he held until 1970. He also held the position of Vice-Principal (Health Sciences) from 1968-1971. In 1979 the newly completed Medical Sciences Building at Queen's University was named Botterell Hall in recognition of Harry Botterell's service and achievements.

Over the years Harry Botterell received numerous awards and honours including the F.N.G. Award from the Canadian Medical Association (1977). He held honorary degrees at McGill (1972), Queen's (1973) and Dalhousie (1979) Universities, University of Toronto (1979) and University of Manitoba (1983) and in 1974 was made Emeritus Professor in Surgical Neurology and Clinical Anatomy at Queen's University. He also was made the recipient of a number of honorary memberships in associations and was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh).

In 1972, after retirement, he investigated the state of health care in Canada's prisons and in 1974, on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, he enquired into animal health care services and Chaired the National Health Services Advisory Committee, reporting to the Commissioner of the Canadian Penitentiary Services. In the early 1980's he authored a report on the findings of a study team investigating seven suicides for Correctional Services. Harry Botterell died in 1997.