Résultats

 Grant, Sir James, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 2 Dec 1915, 12-19     The speaker's interest in the movement started 15 years ago by the late Lord Minto who organized a Canadian Association for protection of our people from tuberculosis, and his visits to all parts of Canada with regard to this endeavour. His impression with the development of central Canada and its …

 Utgoff, Lieut. V.V., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 9 Dec 1915, 20-29     The speaker's leaving of Russia about three months ago, crossing the whole of European Russia in a train, wherein Russian military officers related to him the position of the war. Not understanding why the Germans began to fight the Russians. Ways in which this war is good for Russia, allowing …

 Blondin, Hon. Pierre, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 16 Dec 1915, 30-36     The great deal of good, but also many evils, still to be remedied, brought along in the train of Confederation. The worst of these evils that tale-bearer business, in which few, but still too many politicians indulge, in reporting distorted speeches between the two sister-provinces, and commenting them, in such …

 Foster, Hon. Sir George, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 26 Mar 1915, 123-133     A few remarks with reference to the war which is at present raging, and commerce as it is affected by the war. Disclaiming the idea that war is a promoter of commerce. War as an enemy of commerce. Denying the German contention that they have been forced into this war …

 Simmons, Lieut. J.J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 18 Nov 1915, 1-6     A review of the great trend of Imperial development, perceiving what has almost emerged. The great turning point which might represent the crisis-mark to determine the course that the aggregation of nations under our flag was to follow, has been reached. Australia irrevocably committed to the principle that wars of …

 Faversham, William, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 25 Nov 1915, 7-11     A personal anecdote of an experience the speaker had at a meeting of the Drama League some few years ago. The speaker's great belief in education through drama, and his firm conviction that the theatre is the greatest educational force there is, seconded only by the great daily press. What …

 Doherty, Hon. Charles J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 14 Jan 1915, 26-34     All those meanings that the war has in common with other wars. The meaning of the war that is found in the revelation that we have had of the reality of something that is the most important of all things to this Empire that we love: our pride in acknowledging …

 Mawson, Sir Douglas, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 22 Jan 1915, 35-43     Support form Adelaide University for scientific expeditions. The speaker's connection to the Empire, and his interest in Canada. Reference to Dr. Machell from Ontario on the Shackleton expedition, medical man on the "Nimrod." The British Empire as a phase in the unification of the world. The British Empire suffering severely …

 MacDonald, Dr. J.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 2 Feb 1915, 44-53     Today American looking back to Europe to the ancient homes of our peoples in Britain, in France, in Germany, in the Low Countries, in Italy, and in the Near East. Asking what America has to show and what has Europe to learn? The two English-speaking nations of North America standing …

 Tory, Henry Marshall, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 3 Feb 1915, 54-65     [Address to the Empire Club of Canada at Exhibition Park, Toronto. A thousand men in training for the Canadian Contingent were also present.] The difficulty of realising the significance of what is happening in these very special times. Three or four similar periods in the long history of the development …

 Stauffer, Rev. Byron H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 18 Feb 1915, 66-77     Nothing but the absorbing thought of the war that has kept Canada from remembering that the fifteenth of last month was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Alexander Macdonald. To read the biography of John Alexander Macdonald is to read a new world biography: grounded in humble …

 Ponton, Lieut.-Col. W.N., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 25 Feb 1915, 78-88     Some personal background and memories of the speaker. Ways in which the comradeship in arms and the "will to be one" has wiped out all politics, all sectarianism, all denominationalism. All exuberant in united strength and proud of common citizenship. The glory of service, not the sacrifice of service to …

 Dancy, S.N., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 4 Mar 1915, 89-104     The speaker, addressing the audience as a Canadian, born in the City of Belleville, of good Canadian parents, who succeeded in going into Germany and looking around behind the German lines, and succeeding in coming back to his native land. The far-reaching nature of the propaganda organised by Germany in …

 McCrimmon, Chancellor A.L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 18 Mar 1915, 105-115     The war, revealing certain great principles of action and certain great trends of history. Some of our preconceptions being verified; others not. The trend of German ambition. A review of the history and traditions of Prussia and Germany, with three people coming to mind: Frederick of Prussia, Bismarck, and the …

 Herridge, Rev. Dr. W.T., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 23 Mar 1915, 116-122     Whatever our attitude towards creeds and churches, to whatever church we belong, or even if we belong to no church at all, all of us trying to get down to the roots of things, and the religious instincts which are part and parcel of our being. The need to reach …

      Annual Report for 1915 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.

      John H. Reble (1887-1975) was a Lutheran pastor who served as President of the Canada Synod from 1945 to 1953. John Reble was born in Kropp, Germany on December 14, 1887. He was educated at Kropp Seminary, moved to Canada in 1909. Reble was ordained in Hamilton, Ontario in 1909. …

 Shortt, Rev. C.H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 8 Apr 1915, 134-142     The speaker's experience living in Japan for the last 14 years. The difficulty of generalising about a nation of 54 million people with such a long history. The speaker's good luck to have been in almost the whole of "the sixty-six provinces," and to have met a great many different …

 Sommerville, Norman, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 12 Apr 1915, 143-155     [This address given under the auspices of The Empire Club of Canada, Exhibition Military Camp, Toronto.] The speaker's experiences in Austria and Germany after the outbreak of war. Last year to have been Germany's great year; the year of years in which Germany was on exhibition, whether in the field …