Lorris Elijah Borden was a surgeon and political figure in British Columbia

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. He represented Nelson

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 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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 from 1928 to 1933 as a Conservative

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He was born in Canning, Nova Scotia

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, the son of Benjamin H. Borden and Sarah Cox, and was educated in Kentville

Kentville, Nova Scotia

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 and Dalhousie, New Brunswick

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. In 1899, Borden married Neva Twick. Borden took part in a Canadian government expedition to the Arctic in 1903. During that time, he studied diseases among the Inuit

Inuit

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 and collected a number of carvings and other artifacts which were donated to the government by his wife after his death. This collection is now stored at the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Canadian Museum of Civilization

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. Borden also served as a major in the Canadian Army Medical Corps.

His memoirs were published in 1996 by Edward L. Affleck.