In 1911, Winston S. Churchill and Robert L. Borden became companions in an attempt to provide naval security for the British Empire as a naval crisis loomed with Germany. Their scheme for Canada to provide battleships for the Royal Navy as part of an Imperial squadron was rejected by the Senate with great implications for the future. | Churchill Borden and Anglo-Canadian Naval Relations 1911-14 by Martin Thornton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters