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 Mills, Right Rev. Dr. Wm. Lennox, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1907), 10 Apr 1907, 314-324     A review of the wealth and resources of our country. Some dollar figures in terms of industry and production. The beauty of our scenery from coast to coast. Indications of our prosperity. Our dangers: real, and arising from a lack of cohesiveness coming from the different elements of which our …

 Langelier, C.J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1907), 18 Apr 1907, 325-336     The speaker, expressing the opinions of the mass of the French-Canadians in the matter of allegiance to Britain. French-Canadian loyalty to Britain. Various estimates of the forest area of Canada. The factor of inaccessibility which renders part of the forest domain practically unavailable. The available portion of the Canadian forests …

 Dupuis, Professor N.F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1907), 25 Apr 1907, 337-351     The interest or lack thereof, in the Metric system of weights and measures. The attempt by those who believe in the Metric system to convince people of its merits; doing their best to have our Government commit itself to the Metric system. Speaking of the Metric system from a scientific …

 Foster, Hon. George E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 9 May 1907, 11-14     Bearing the name of the Empire; the need to stiffen up your shoulder and make your limbs good and strong to bear the weight of that portion of Empire work that falls upon you through the coming years. The Empire of Britain just about beginning its work, despite its age …

 Greenwood, Hamar, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 13 Sep 1907, 15-20     Speaking from the point of view of the home country, and of a man who views the British Empire from the royal palace of Westminster and from the Colonial Office, and not so much as one who so often in Canada views the Empire only from the local platform. The …

 Morris, Hon. Sir Daniel, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 20 Sep 1907, 21-27     The eight colonies in the West Indies, each with their own government, legislative council, and their own institutions. The first attempt to start a federal institution, that federal institution now called the Imperial Department of Agriculture. Support from Imperial funds. The hope that by means of improved agricultural methods and …

 Emery, James A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 26 Sep 1907, 28-37     The speaker's interests and concerns with labour, with the proper relation of organizations, of capital, of employees, or employers, to the State in which they are both citizens. The fact that consolidation or organization has its dangers no less than its benefits and that in regard to this great period …

 Ewan, John A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 3 Oct 1907, 38-42     Instances of railway accidents. The issue of railway crossings. How such crossings would be funded. The speaker's presentation of where railways have spent immense sums of money in extinguishing grade crossings, in many cases most willingly; illustrative examples from the Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Chicago. Models of funding. The …

 Eby, Rev. C.S., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 10 Oct 1907, 43-53     Comments on the address by Mr. Hamar Greenwood. The fate of the white race, and the trend of the era upon which we are now entering, dependent on what the Chinaman will do. The unsafe quality of ignoring or insulting any many on account of the tint of his skin …

 Hughes, James L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 17 Oct 1907, 54-65     The National School System as one of the greatest gifts that America gave to the world. The lesson learned by the state that it is wise to aid men in getting an education in order that they may be able more effectively to do their work of leadership in the …

 Sheard, Charles M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 24 Oct 1907, 66-80     A history of the subject. The state of the harbour of Toronto. The depositing of sewage into the harbour daily at the rate of 25,000,000 gallons per day. The asset of our harbour being frittered away or ignored. Proposals as to what the City of Toronto should be with its …

 Maclean, W.F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 7 Nov 1907, 81-90     The areas which the speaker suggests must be taken in when speaking of Greater Toronto for three great public reasons: to control the water supply of all that country; to control the roads and the traction systems in that territory; to control the sewers and sanitation of the district. Taking …

 Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 14 Nov 1907, 91-106     The work of the colonial conference—the solidarity of the interests of Great Britain and the Dominions. A consideration of the important questions dealt with at the fifteen meetings of the Conference. A summary of the proceedings and resolutions discussed. Viewing each subject from a general standpoint. Keeping before us the …

 Wickett, S. Morley, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 21 Nov 1907, 107-115     The early settlers who strove for an ideal, as evidenced in their constitution. Applying this ideal to the subject in hand. How the ideals that we form for our local government affect more than we perhaps may be inclined to think at first the ideals of the wider political field …

 Hanna, D.B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 28 Nov 1907, 116-125     The commercial history of Western Canada, beginning in 1670 with the charter by which Charles II constituted Prince Rupert and 17 of his friends "the Governor and Company of Adventurers Trading into Hudson's Bay," permitting them to trade over an area of 2,500,000 square miles. The obligation in return for …

 Willison, J.S., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 5 Dec 1907, 126-131     What Civil Service means: that appointments to the public service and promotions therein shall be determined by competitive examinations. This reform not recommended as a perfect system, but as a vast improvement over the system of appointments by patronage committees and of the exercise of partisan pressure in order to …

 Sherwood, W.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1907), 3 Jan 1907, 145-152     The real purpose of art in a nation's life. A consideration of a greater field in which art can be made conducive to the development of national life. The influence of art upon the mind of an infant. The real idea of art to be in the life of every …

 Greene, Major-General Francis Vinton, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1907), 10 Jan 1907, 153-165     A review of the debate between Mr. Foss and Dr. Montague, and other speeches delivered at the Empire Club. Canada in the Twentieth Century. Comparisons with the United States in the Nineteenth. Canada's finances, population, railways, canals, size, natural resources, costs of defence. Considering the attitude of the United States …

 Gow, J. Graham, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1907), 17 Jan 1907, 166-173     The speaker's duties, representing New Zealand all over the world, looking up overseas markets. His first move to visit South Africa, and the success of the trip. From there to England and his reception there. Subsidization of steamers from New Zealand to Africa, and to the west parts of England. …

 Ames, Herbert B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1907), 24 Jan 1907, 174-185     The speaker's definition of the "machine" as an organization, actively at work to influence the choice of a body of electors, with regard to who shall represent them. Where such a machine might exist, with examples. The machine idea as practically universal, or may become such wherever an election can …