Résultats

      Appears to be two account books combined – much of ledger is for the Elgin-Chaffey’s Lock Telephone Company. The earlier part of the ledger seems to list debits and credits from local general merchants in Newboro, Elgin etc.

      Annual Report for 1910 of the Waterloo Public Library.

 Barker, Professor Lewellys F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 5 Jan 1910, 77-88     Progress over the last century in understanding the nature of disease; in finding out how to prevent disease; and in discovering cures for disease. This progress over the last century more than in all the time preceding. To what this great progress is due. How the researches of Pasteur and …

 Foster, Hon. George E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 10 Jan 1910, 89-101     The trend of Empire, which interests us all but not, as far as the speaker is concerned, as much as it ought. Ways in which the Empire of Great Britain is unique. The trend of Empire divided into three parts: the long, long period of preparation; the period of wonderful …

 MacPhail, Professor Andrew, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 20 Jan 1910, 102-127     A presentation of many of the various arguments and reasonings with regard to women's suffrage. Comments on those who resort to mockery and ridicule. Endeavouring to set forth the psychology of the suffragette, not in the interest of pure science so much as with the intention of discovering if an …

 Peterson, Principal William, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 3 Feb 1910, 128-131     [Synopsis only available.] A discussion of the issue of Canada's partnership and responsibilities as regards the British Empire. The speaker's statement that there is "too much talk, at the present time of the need for asserting our individual and separate existence, and of the inalienable rights and privileges of self-government. …

 Cockshut, W.F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 9 Feb 1910, 132-139     The matter of Empire Unity. The speaker's representation of Toronto and Ontario at the Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire in Sydney, Australia. Ways in which this gathering was unique. The three most important questions that the speaker believes the Congress dealt with out of the fifty …

 Robertson, Rev. Andrew, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 13 May 1910, 140-148     A description of the ceremony of "the order of the night" at London Tower. Some history of "our late beloved Sovereign King Edward VII," who ascended the throne of Great Britain with more prejudices against him that any other. The closed doors on every hand. Now entered into the affection …

 Hibbard, Lieut.-Col. F.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 28 Feb 1910, 209-217     Mistaken ideas as to the purport or range of duties of the Public Utilities Commission. Drawing our attention to some of the marked modern tendencies in social and economic organization. The growth of very great cities. The demand and response to that demand for increased and increasing transportation facilities. The …

 Wade, F.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 10 Nov 1910, 80-88     Realizing the debt we owe to General Wolfe. A glance for a moment at some of the incidents of the Seven Years' War. First, the characters in the drama. France's claim in American before the Seven Years' War. The English Colonies at that time. If Napoleon had succeeded at the …

 Casgrain, Senator J.P.B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 16 Nov 1910, 89-100     A lesson from history: "All nations that have become great have realized the paramount importance of easy means of communications." England's example. Uniting the various provinces of our magnificent Dominion by perfecting our system of inter-communication. Reference to Major Stephens' address on waterways. Remarks with regard to the widening and …

 DuMoulin, Right Rev. J.P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 24 Nov 1910, 101-109     A descriptive travelogue across Canada. A description and tribute to those fine old Maritime Provinces. Proceeding westward by two great routes: the magnificent St. Lawrence or the Intercolonial Railway, "the product of the greatest man who ever governed Canada." Reaching beautiful Quebec. Montreal and the great lessons that one learns …

 Hawkes, Arthur, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 1 Dec 1910, 110-116     Remarks on the English habit of dropping "g's" and adding "h's" in their speech. Something in this country that we have got that England has not, and a few things that England has got that she might well get rid of. Showing the Old Country that we can raise better …

 Riddell, Mr. Justice W.R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 13 Dec 1910, 117-129     The gradual growth of the British Constitution, of which Canada's is a copy. Traces of the past in this institution. The continuous course of the evolution of the Constitution. Something to be learned of this evolution from the name of the Sovereign. Taking up, in order, the names and titles …

 Edwards, Major W.H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 22 Dec 1910, 130-138     Speaking as a lover of England, and also as a friendly critic of some of England's institutions, and of the trend of thought prevailing there today. Suffering in Britain from what might be described as a slumberous condition of patriotism today; also from a slumberous Imperialism, a loss of the …

 Hamilton, Captain C. Frederick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 14 Jan 1910, 139-148     Speaking as a Canadian who is anxious that his country should pay her own way in the Empire, and as a Canadian who desires to see his country bear her part in the Empire's affairs by developing her own individuality, by exercising those faculties and qualities which are her special …

 Campbell, A.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 10 Jan 1910, 159-166     Creating an interest in the betterment of waggon roads over the last 20 years. A movement for the better organization of the forces which were at work at that time upon the roads. What had to be done in order to make this happen. How roads were built, without assistance …

      See also: II 6 6 through II 6 8.

      The book focuses on a variety of themes relating to Laura Secord and her courageous trek to Beaverdams during the War of 1812. Other topics mentioned in the book include: first settlers, the Secord family, the Ingersoll family, reminiscences of 1812, the town of St. Davids, Fort Niagara, the Nelles …

      This book documents the immigration costs for some of Penmans Limited's immigrant workers in 1910. For much of the early 20th century, Penmans actively solicited workers - primarily women - in England and throughout Canada and assisted them in immigrating to Canada in order to work in the Penmans clothing …