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Sulte, Benjamin, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1904), 14 Jan 1904, 38-42     A turning point at the moment Confederation was enacted. A Canadian sentiment in existence three centuries ago: an historical review. Creating two new Canadas. The first talk about Confederation. The key to Confederation. Canadians, joining together with a declaration of patriotism and sentiment. Other provinces coming in: British Columbia, Prince ...

Brodeur, Honourable L.P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1904), 3 Mar 1904, 95-103     The love of country as the basis of all true patriotism. Ways in which the French-Canadian finds in Canada all that is needed to awaken the love of country and to stimulate his patriotism. The French-Canadian naturally more attached to the section of the country which is most closely associated ...

Wallace, Rev. Dr. O.C.S., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1904), 10 Mar 1904, 104-114     A definition of conscience involving two things: a judgment and an emotion. Speaking of conscience in a national relation, having in mind the family, the conduct of business, and the conduct of public affairs, political and other. Conscience adding to the worth and the welfare of the state when it ...

Osborne, Henry C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1906), 30 Mar 1905, 268-276     The subject of patriotism in general and, more particularly, Canadian patriotism. Ways in which patriotism is distinctly a product of geographical conditions, and how it is developed. Love of race, or loyalty as another quality which is closely related to patriotism. Patriotism as the conjunction of these two qualities. The ...

Ross, Hon. G.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1906), 12 May 1905, 252-267     Passing through, in the last 50-100 years, from a protoplasm of Canadian loyalty to the rather fuller development which we have now reached. Recalling a time when there was no such thing as Canadian loyalty. Recalling he time when our fathers came here. Only within the last few years we ...

McLaren, Rev. Dr. E.D., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1906), 18 Jan 1906, 131-136     The lack of worthy, progressive national life without national aspirations. Self-respect and a certain measure of self-confidence as essential elements for the success of a nation as well as of an individual. The steady growth of a spirit of Canadian nationality as one of the most gratifying features of our ...

Tucker, Rev. Canon L. Norman, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 12 Jan 1911, 149-158     The speaker's supposition that the great mass of the Canadian people are satisfied that Canada should remain an integral portion of the British Empire, and why that might be so. Canada today as a young nation, one of a family of nations within the bounds of the British Empire. Canada's ...

McCullough, Charles R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 10 Mar 1911, 218-223     A time when there seemed to be room for ignorance in regard to the possibilities of Canada. Much to learn from the accomplishments of the U.E. Loyalists who founded this great land. Now the time for Canada to demand that her sons, who have read her history, should learn to ...

Grant, Prof. W.L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 11 Apr 1912, 222-228     The question of Nationalism in the modern sense rather a new thing. A nation, in the sense of a people with coherent boundaries awakening to a common consciousness really taking its rise only after the French Revolution. A brief historical review of such development. All the nationalistic strivings in Europe ...

Harper, J.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 12 Dec 1913, 93-107     A discussion of this issue of Canadian assimilation along the lines of a geometrical proposition. What this question of Canadian assimilation means at its basis; forming an enunciation. Then, the axioms of postulates or self-evident truths there are to guide us in our investigation, of which there are three: Canada ...

Pidgeon, Rev. G.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 10 May 1917, 559-569     The difficulty of reproducing Eastern in Western Canada. The effect of the East on the West: there are entirely new elements entering into the life of that country. The influences of the land itself, the mountains and the valleys of the interior of British Columbia bringing up a proud and ...

Bowles, Rev. R.P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1924), 3 Apr 1924, 166-173     Talking about a sentiment. The nature of patriotism. Patriotism as a natural instinct. The culture of Canadian Patriotism. The lack of instruction about patriotism when the speaker was in school. Canada's history as a pioneer history. Today, reaping the benefits of those terrible struggles and privations of our fathers. Some ...

Currie, General Sir Arthur, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1926), 19 Mar 1925, 141-153     Some sure and tested tricks or methods of overcoming fear in the individual or in the group. Speaking not of war but of peace. Speaking not of Europe but of Canada. The irony that one should have to plead for the conquest of fear in days of quiet, when it ...

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 ...

Groe, Frederick Philip, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1930), 28 Feb 1929, 91-100     The resources of Canada. Canada aspiring to nationhood. Quebec's position within Canada. French Quebec in Canada as an example of a nation within an empire. Canada's neighbour to the south and its influence on our nationhood. Ways in which Canada and its development is different from the United States. The ...

McGeer, G.G., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1938), 3 Feb 1938, 216-226     Canada's place in the world today of little real consequence unless we, as Canadians, can show something of the unity of spirit that is essential to Canadian peace and to Canadian progress and prosperity. Putting our problems into historical perspective. The record of achievement of the builders of this Dominion ...

Harvey, M. Jean-Charles, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1940), 11 Jan 1940, 227-239     A discussion of some of the problems which today face Canada as a nation. Nationalism as viewed when we look at the events in Europe. Looking forward to a time when racial passion shall have disappeared in Canada. Remembering the ideal the founders of North American white civilization had before ...

Dumoulin, Jacques, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 30 Mar 1944, 392-404     A history of Quebec and its people. The heroes of 1646, 1648 and 1649. Immigration and population of Quebec. The heroic story of capture and recapture, taking and retaking of strategic points. Colonists no longer French who became Canadian. The vigorous, youthful nation of the United States and how it ...

Fleming, Donald M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1946), 4 Apr 1946, 323-339     The challenge that Canada and Canadians face. The need for a national vision if we hope to progress as a nation. The need to discern the challenge and to recognize the fact that we have been challenged by Destiny. The element of choice. The need for a sense of our ...

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. ...