Résultats

 Yeigh, Frank, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 25 Apr 1912, 238-249     Canada an infant in arms when measured by the calendar of time. Our life and time and history in Canada measured by centuries; just a little over half-a-century of time in the Canadian West. How much has been accomplished in that comparatively brief list of years from Canada's national point …

 Grier, A. Monro, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 16 May 1912, 250-261     The proposition that Toronto, outside of the British Isles themselves, is or should be hereafter the most considerable city in the whole of the British Empire. Looking at the matter geographically. Canada standing pre-eminent in comparison with the other outlying parts of the British Empire. Canada's comparative nearness or distance …

 Heaton, Ernest, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 21 Mar 1912, 191-201     Colonization in its narrower sense, defined as the peopling of the land. An intensely human subject, dividing itself into a number of sub-headings such as assisted emigration, restricted emigration, ready-made farms, model colonies, juvenile immigration, education and colonization, scientific publicity, town planning, etc. A suggestion for an association to be …

 Starr, Commissioner J.E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 28 Mar 1912, 202-212     Giving a clear view, and presenting the reason for, and the working of, the Juvenile Court in its endeavour to make your delinquents good citizens of the Empire. The recognition by the Juvenile Court of two principles embodied in the Children's Protection Act of Great Britain: that the child should …

 Craig, Hon. Mr. Justice, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 4 Apr 1912, 213-221     The Yukon, where the speaker has spent 12 years. The Klondike mining camp as probably the greatest placer camp the world has ever seen, in this respect that no camp ever produced the same amount of gold out of the same quantity of ground. The output, and the coincident mad …

 Grant, Prof. W.L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 11 Apr 1912, 222-228     The question of Nationalism in the modern sense rather a new thing. A nation, in the sense of a people with coherent boundaries awakening to a common consciousness really taking its rise only after the French Revolution. A brief historical review of such development. All the nationalistic strivings in Europe …

 Smith, Rev. W.E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 18 Apr 1912, 229-237     some of the reasons why China has changed and some of the reasons why we ought to recognize China as a part of the great human race. China no longer an Empire; she has become a Republic, and will play a very important part in the coming days of this …

 Hoyle, Honourable W.H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 12 Dec 1912, 112-117     A retrospective view of the development of Imperialism. British history divided into four parts: training, colonization through discovery, colonization by conquest, the growth of the Empire. A brief review of each. Asking the member of the Empire Club to go forward in the great work of forming public opinion, and …

 Singh, Dr. Sundar, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 25 Jan 1912, 112-116     The importance of the subject of the Sikhs in Canada to the British Empire. The customs and religion of the Sikhs, who are a part of the Empire. History and origins of this religion, founded by a great teacher called Nana, born in the Punjaub in the northwest provinces of …

 O'Hagan, Thomas, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 1 Feb 1912, 117-124     Celebrating, this year, the centenary of one of our greatest masters of fiction, Charles Dickens. Feeling the loss of his son, Charles Tennyson Dickens, who passed away yesterday. Forming an estimate of the genius of Dickens with some knowledge of the conditions of the times into which he was born; …

 Archer-Shee, Major M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 6 Feb 1912, 125-133     Promoting discussion of a state-owned Atlantic cable; enlisting the support of the press in Toronto to get them to back up the Government of Canada in pressing upon the Home Government the urgent necessity of summoning a subsidiary conference to deal with the all red cable route. The importance of …

 Wright, A.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 15 Feb 1912, 134-145     The need for Canada to make up its mind quickly and decidedly, as to what it is going to do to maintain for Canada the control of the water-borne trade of the west and the northwest. Consequences for the future of making a mistake now. Three ways proposed by which …

 Casgrain, Lieut.-Col. The Hon. J.P.B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 22 Feb 1912, 146-155     The speaker's journey to London last year as a representative of Canada at the coronation of his august majesty, King George V. The good knowledge obtained during that visit, of the immense commercial resources of the British Isles, convincing him that England was still the mistress of the commerce of …

 Coleman, Professor Arthur P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 29 Feb 1912, 156-166     Ontario as a mining country for a very long time, since 1815 when a little iron mine was worked on the north shore of Lake Erie. Copper mining next, about half way through the century, begun by two English companies on the north shore of Lake Huron at Bruce Mines. …

 Kemp, Professor, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 7 Mar 1912, 167-174     The speaker's 25-year experience engaged in teaching young engineers some parts of the science which they might subsequently use in their profession. Ways in which this profession of engineering is becoming involved in all of our civilization: a look back. Education as a preparation for this profession of a very …

 Taylor, Rev. Dr. W.E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 14 Mar 1912, 175-190     Coming back from China a more ardent Imperialist than ever. Offering in a brief, concise, and practical way some suggestions by which we can aid in propagating the true Imperial spirit, as far as it is related to the new East. Business men coming out to China, mainly from the …

 Croft, H. Page, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 12 Sep 1912, 12-20     The very great awakening in the British Isles as to the true meaning of Empire. Recent events that have entirely altered the outlook of the average British citizen upon Canadian affairs. An interest and affection that has been created and which the speaker believes neither time nor stress will obliterate. …

 Long, Right Honourable Walter H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 26 Sep 1912, 21-28     Reference to two men who, when they lived, were working for the same object, struggling to lead their fellow-countrymen in the same direction: Lord Beaconsfield, better known as Benjamin Disraeli, and Sir John A. Macdonald. Ways in which both these men were Imperial statesmen. The inevitability that the plan and …

 Riddell, Honourable William Renwick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 23 Oct 1912, 29-48     The importance of the fact that Canada is British, particularly for the future of the English-speaking world. The difference between Canada's people and the people to the south of her as what fixed the destiny of Canada. The lack of explanation as to why the English adventurers, after they had …

 Rowell, N.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 31 Oct 1912, 49-55     Our view as to what our Imperial relations should be, dependent largely on our conception of Empire, and of the ideal towards which we should work. Some facts and some principles upon which, the speaker feels sure, we can all agree. A detailed list of six items follows. Four suggestions …