Résultats

 Thorn, The Hon. James, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 6 Nov 1947, 93-102     An event in New Zealand's history which associates with the people of Canada. Edward Gibbon Wakefield's role as a staff member for the Earl of Durham while in Canada after the 1837 rebellion. Wakefield's subsequent role in the New Zealand Land Company, which organized and dispatched from England the first …

 Keyserlingk, R.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 6 Mar 1947, 245-255     Canada today in the position of having to adjust her government machinery to the requirements of applied sovereign nationhood simultaneously with the necessity of assuming the unprecedented responsibilities of a nation facing a world in upheaval. Gigantic forces at work reshaping, re-aligning and revising the very foundations of international society. …

 McClure, Dr. Robert Baird, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 20 Mar 1947, 269-278     The position of Canada as a bridge between Europe and the Far East, particularly as a bridge in relation to China. Some concrete actions that the speaker believes we as Canadians could take, and should take. Three chief causes for the civil war now engulfing China, with a discussion of …

 Erskine, John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 1 May 1947, 349-359     First, a performance by Glen Gould. Congratulations to the Toronto Conservatory on its 60th birthday. Ties with the Juilliard School of Music in New York through Edward Johnson. Music education in the new world. The problem of the arts in this continent as somewhat different from anything the old world …

 Forde, The Rt. Hon. Francis Michael, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 13 Mar 1947, 256-268     Australia's growth and development as a partner in the British Commonwealth. Australia's present constitutional position and relations with the other parts of the Empire. The basic factor of the relationship one where 98% of Australia is of British stock. Some history of the discovery of Australia by the Dutch in …

 Wolfit, Donald, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 30 Jan 1947, 174-187     The speaker's memories of a tour in Canada when he played "The Barrets of Wimpole Street" and other plays under the direction of Sir Barry Jackson. Ties between Canada and Britain. The works of William Shakespeare as the greatest ambassador in the world. The significant contribution of Shakespeare. Some history …

 Gower-Rees, Colonel, The Ven. Archdeacon A.P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 10 Apr 1947, 305-315     Some of the varied comments regarding the British Empire. The question of the day: "Has the British Empire Completed its Task?" The speaker's substitution of the word "purpose" for "tasks." Use of the word Commonwealth rather than Empire. Ways in which the British Empire is STILL an Empire today. Ways …

 Spry, Major-General D.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 23 Jan 1947, 167-173     A great need for those in Scouting continuously to speak about this great Movement due to the considerable lack of knowledge of the aims and intentions. The purpose and endeavours of Scouting. The very great part that Scouting has to play in conjunction with the church, the home and the …

 Cheyney, William J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 13 Nov 1947, 103-116     The future of an expanding use of instalment credit to the world economic-social situation. A review of economic events in Canada and the United States since last February. Two approaches to this address: world conditions as they relate to consumer credit; consumer credit pictured against the greater background of world …

 McCreary, Wing Commander John F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 27 Feb 1947, 228-244     The speaker as one of a group whose task it was to examine the civilians in Occupied Europe in an attempt to evaluate their state of health at the conclusion of the German Occupation. Most work done in Western Holland; some in the Brussels region of Belgium. Comments on France …

 Drury, Brigadier Charles M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 24 Apr 1947, 331-344     The unhappy condition in which Poland found herself at the end of the war. Widespread misconceptions which appear to have been formed both on this continent and in the British Isles on the subject of Poland. Evidence of this misconception. Sympathy and liking for the Poles experienced by the people …

 Hunt, Lawrence, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 20 Nov 1947, 117-124     The English-speaking nations as a family that help each other and stick together as a family should in the hour of need to keep from our door both the wolf and the bear. Not yet enjoying the fairer world which brave men died to win. Britain surviving so-called doom. Aiding …

 Wood, Lieutenant J.E.R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1947), 6 Feb 1947, 188-199     The story of Oflag IVC, and the Canadian "Escape King", Lt. Bill Miller, Royal Canadian Engineers. The Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1942. A positive response to the questions, "Was it worth while? Was the raid a success?" A review of the situation up to the summer of 1942. The …

 Drew, Colonel The Honourable George A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 4 Jun 1947, 1-15     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. The speaker's recent trip to Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. The regard with which Canada is perceived. A report on Western Europe, particularly Germany. The situation in Britain. Britain far from finished as a …

 Strabolgi, Lord, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 14 Aug 1947, 16-28     The speaker representing the British Parliament in the Province of Ontario. Feelings of gratitude in Britain to Canada for Canadian Forces war efforts and for the generous help given when Britain was in difficulties following the end of hostilities. The foreign policy of the present government in Britain, supported by …

 Fisher, John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 2 Oct 1947, 29-42     The new frontiers of science and the mind. The worst cobweb of resistance to change. The genius to know how to strike the balance: what to preserve and what to cast aside. The need for a new approach. Thinking of a world community. The promise of the Dominion of Canada. …

 Berkinshaw, R.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 27 Nov 1947, 125-142     Highlights of the journey of the Canadian Trade Mission, recently returned from a visit to South Africa. First, four pictures which have been projected upon the mind of the speaker as a result of this recent trip. Some background to the Trade Mission and those who went on it. Places …

 Smith, Arthur Le Roy, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 11 Dec 1947, 157-170     The Geneva Trade Agreements. The accomplishment of 26 nations emerging from a meeting with an agreement. An agreement broadly based on there being no discriminations in trade between those 26 countries. Some excerpts from the agreement, with explication. A further meeting going on right now, in Havana, where changes will …

 Bridges, John Gourlay, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 30 Oct 1947, 82-92     Reference to the speaker's address in 1938 when he stated that the hope of civilization depended very largely upon a united British Commonwealth, allied to a strong English-speaking understanding and co-operation. The truth of those words today. A United Commonwealth essential to a real and lasting peace. Canada's contribution to …

 Catlin, Professor G.E.G., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 9 Oct 1947, 43-55     The theme of world organization for peace, and within that framework, a fusion of the United States and the British Commonwealth. A fusion of the West within the framework of world government. Words from Wendell Willkie and Walter Lippmann on this subject. A proposal from Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, …