 Tupper accepted this invitation and returned to Canada, becoming prime minister in May 1896.An election was called, just before he was sworn in as prime minister, which his party lost to Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberals.Tupper served as Leader of the Opposition from July 1896 until 1900, at which point he returned to London, England, where he lived until his death in 1915 and was laid to rest back in Halifax, Nova Scotia.