Résultats

 Bell, Jas. MacIntosh, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 17 Feb 1927, 29-38     The asset of the potential mineral wealth of Canada. The discovery of important mineral deposits as the single factor which has done more to encourage the settlement of large areas than any other. How the discovery of the Klondike spread knowledge of the grain possibilities of the Prairies, while Cobalt, …

 Story, W. Oswald, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 7 Apr 1927, 95-104     Defining what is meant by sea power. How sea power of a country may be measured. How the British Empire was built up by her traders who carried her commerce to distant lands and established themselves in security under the armed protection of the British Navy, or in early days …

 Aylesworth, Sir Alan, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 31 Mar 1927, 88-94     The position which the Crown of England occupies as a link of Empire. Some remarks on the use of the word "Empire" and the new phrase the "Commonwealth of British Nations." Words from the statute was passed by the Parliament of England in 1533 in the 24th year of the …

 Thorson, J.T., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 10 Feb 1927, 18-28     Building a nation in this new land of Canada. Charged with a great responsibility with two functions to perform: as architects to draw the plans for a noble edifice, and as builders to carry out those plans in order that our building may endure. Using the materials at hand. Materials …

 Randall, Dr. Otis E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 18 Jan 1927, 11-16     A response to the question "Is a College education necessary in business?" Changes over the last 50 years in terms of this question, and in terms of the aims of education. A consideration of modern education as divided into three parts: physical needs; mental development but more, including the influence …

 Smith, The Right Rev. John Taylor, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 10 Nov 1927, 192-204     The speaker's visits to Canada. Incidents and personal anecdotes from the Great War, many of a religious nature.

 Flower, His Worship Archibald, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 13 Oct 1927, 142-151     The speaker addresses the audience in his capacity of Chairman of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Memorial. What Shakespeare means, and what a lot of help the knowledge and love of Shakespeare will give to us, no matter what our job in life may be. The story of re-building …

 Livingstone, R.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 20 Oct 1927, 152-160     the English Public School and its influence on the character of the nation. Two main types of school apart form the elementary school in England. Some details of each with regard to teaching and fees. Thomas Arnold of Rugby who, in the forties, can by said to have practically made …

 Riddell, W.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 7 Jan 1927, 1-10     Turning our thoughts to Geneva, the political centre of the world, the fountainhead of International Cooperation. What London is to our Empire relations, Geneva is to International cooperation. The realization of the importance of Geneva by the Canadian Government. The establishment of the speaker as an Advisory Officer, an accredited …

 Baldwin, The Right Honourable Stanley, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 6 Aug 1927, 120-130     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. Words of praise for Joe Wright, a Canadian sculler and sportsman. The subject of education to be addressed here because Ontario as always taken the lead in education. Interest in England to see how she …

 Wrong, Professor George M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 24 Feb 1927, 39-39     A few explanatory remarks followed by a film representation of the siege and capture of Quebec by the British under General Wolfe.

 Godfrey, Hollis; Morrow, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 17 Nov 1927, 205-219     The work of the speaker's Foundation, to examine these problems: How does wealth, goods and service of value for human use, grow? How do these tools of our modern civilization, railways, motors, roads, structures, all these tools with which we live and have our being, grow? What work is required …

 Heart of Bury, The Right Honourable Lord, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 25 Aug 1927, 131-141     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. An amusing diatribe on newspapers, newspapermen, the machinery itself, and the stuff that is printed, with many references and quotations of witty remarks, delivered in a "Pickwickian sense."

 Cockshutt, Colonel The Honourable Henry, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 14 Apr 1927, 105-111     Some impressions of a visit made, with members of the speaker's family, early in the year, to South America. The natural resources of the Argentine Republic and Brazil. These resources as objects of forthcoming enterprises. Canadians on the spot. The beauty of Buenos Aires. A description of the population, community, …

      Annual Report for 1927 of the Waterloo Public Library. Includes names of members of the Library Board.

      A promissory note, referred to as a note payable in accounting, or commonly as just a "note", is a contract where one party (the maker or issuer) makes an unconditional promise in writing to pay a sum of money to the other (the payee), either at a fixed or determinable …

      An assessment roll is a public record of taxable property. The headings for each column on a page is listed under full text.

      The Brooklin Spring Fair was initiated by a group of farmers and businessmen in the Township of Whitby. The first fair, lasting one day, was held at Grass Park on 24 May 1911. In 1913, fair moved to the Vipond Farm where it continued until 1925. At that time admission …

 Caldwell, Professor W., Montreal, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 1 Dec 1927, 233-244     The speaker's recent lecture in Warsaw on Canada at the request of the Polish authorities. The speaker endeavouring to work out some sort of connnection between British liberty as seen from the point of view of the Dominions and Polish liberty as seen by the European point of view. A …

 Wilson, Captain J.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1928), 24 Mar 1927, 86-87     The synopsis of this address includes the following details. The speaker covered post-war activities in aviation in various countries. Britain establishing services to the Continent, to India, Central Africa, gradually linking up London with Cape Town, India, Singapore and Australia. Routes laid by France to North and West Africa. Germany …