The house where Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden was born is up for sale for the first time in this century. The Nova Scotia residence is listed at $1.375-million. Article content

The property, on Grand Pré Road in Grand-Pré, N.S., was originally built in 1792, several decades after the area was settled by New England Planters from the colonies to the south. On June 26, 1854, Borden, a descendent of these settlers, was born there. Article content

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“It originally was an Acadian house that had been burnt down,” Brian Twohey, the current owner, told National Post. “The new people built a house on the foundation.” The Acadians had been forcibly removed by the British in the 1750s over fears they would side with the French in the Seven Years War.

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