Résultats

      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 …

      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.

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

 Sifton, Hon. Clifford, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 20 Oct 1910, 57-63     The work of the Commission on Conservation with regard to the conservation of our natural resources. Living in an age of exploitation, of development. The aim of everyone to make the natural resources contribute to the wealth of the individual and of the community. The abundant resources. The work of …

 Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 26 Oct 1910, 64-69     A joint luncheon of the British Empire League, The Canadian Defence League, and the Empire Club of Canada. The speaker's brief that the corporate existence of the Empire is the British navy, and as Canada is an integral part of the Empire, the British navy is also the basis of …

 Stephens, Major George W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 3 Nov 1910, 70-79     Canada's present rate of increase which will, during the 20th century, contribute to the Empire a population exceeding that now occupying the British Isles, and produce from one quarter of her available wheat areas in the West more wheat then now comprises the total wheat crop of the United States. …

 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 …

 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 …

 Spurgoen, Arthur, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 5 May 1910, 250-256     The critical illness of His Majesty. The speech by His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada as he was about to lay down the insignia of his office. The Toronto newspapers. A word on behalf of good literature in its most strenuous form in the present day. Asking what Canada is …

 Ross, P.D., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 17 Feb 1910, 149-160     Ways in which the Imperial Press Conference is a dead thing. Other issues arising in Canada and England which have put the Conference well out of mind. But some things to be said about it, some morals to be drawn from it. One of the dominant impressions produced that of …

 Ryerson, Dr. George Sterling, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 24 Feb 1910, 160-168     The speaker's experiences in Germany many years ago as a young post-graduate student. The many friendships and opinions he formed at that time regarding the thoroughness, tenacity of purpose, perseverance, and self-sacrificing patriotism of the Germans. The undercurrent of mysticism, medeaevalism and philosophy which seems inherent in the German nature …

 Hincks, Rev. W.H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 3 Mar 1910, 169-178     Ways in which England is great, and reasons why she is so. Some British history. In what things England has proven herself in advance of most of the nations. England's social and economic emancipation of her people; her democracy. England as the hope of the wage-earner. England holding her place …