Loring Christie

Loring Christie trained at Acadia and Harvard before joining Canada's Department of External Affairs as its legal adviser in 1913. During the First World War he helped Robert Borden develop the constitutional arguments for a Canadian voice in imperial decisions. He accompanied Borden to the Imperial War Cabinet and the Paris Peace Conference, where Canada obtained separate membership in the League of Nations. ^{1, 2}

Christie left government in 1923 and worked in finance and the electricity industry, including Ontario Hydro and the Beauharnois company. He returned to External Affairs in 1935 and became Canada's minister in Washington in 1939. Ill health cut short his service at the beginning of the Second World War; he died in April 1941. ²