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Newton, Prof. A.P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 12 Dec 1919, 466-483     A description of the scheme being undertaken at the University of London with regard to business. Building up the great sphere of international commerce. Getting young men who will be able to look at the problems of the world not with the narrow vision of a man whose sight is ...

Jellicoe, Admiral Viscount, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 8 Dec 1919, 458-465     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. The true part played by the British Navy in winning the war. The part that Canada played. The speaker's conception of the three duties of the British Navy during war, with a brief discussion of ...

Leverhulme, Lord, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 4 Dec 1919, 442-457     The employee today as the employer of tomorrow in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The speaker's optimism with regard to the worker in these countries. How profits are made. The need for all three of capital, labor, and good management. Getting the best results through private ownership. ...

Gouin, Leon Mercier, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 27 Nov 1919, 430-441     The British Empire, a free association of free nations bound together of our own accord, and by strengthening and developing this part of the British world, thereby contributing to advancing our common ideals and our common interest. Contributing effectively, truly and heartily to a closer union between our two races ...

Beatty, E.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 20 Nov 1919, 420-429     The Canadian Pacific operations within the limits of Ontario. The variety of railway traffic possibilities offered in Ontario. Ontario's share of manufactured products, with some specific figures. What the future holds in terms of traffic and railway possibilities in Ontario. Total railway mileage for Ontario. Expectations for the National Railway ...

Vanderlip, F.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 17 Nov 1919, 405-419     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. A very cheerful picture of conditions in the United States. American participation, losses, and benefits with regard to the Great War. What has happened in the year since the close of the war. A review ...

Brittain, Sir Harry, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 11 Nov 1919, 392-404     What our great Empire did during the war. Remembering all those who made the noble sacrifice, without which there would have been no armistice days to celebrate. The speaker's personal recollections of a previous visit to Canada, and the book he wrote afterwards. The object of the speaker's current visit ...

Prince of Wales, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 4 Nov 1919, 384-391     An expression of the speaker's impressions of Canada in military terms. The speaker's attractive impression of the young and free spirit he found in the West, with a realization of the great future and development lying before it. Time spent over the last three weeks back in the east in ...

Service, Dr. Charles W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 30 Oct 1919, 369-384     The numerous Chinese problems. Three of four of these problems addressed, and enlarged in some detail. The speaker's service in China as a medical missionary. The problem of approach. Learning the Chinese point of view, not just their language, but how they see things, which is often almost the antithesis ...

Van Dyke, Dr. Henry, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 25 Oct 1919, 360-368     Ladies Day The proposed centenary of the hundred years of peace between the United States and the British Empire. A reading of some of the speaker's verse about war. The fighting that continues in Europe and Asia today. Doing our best to keep peace. Dealing with those who break the ...

Wright, Councillor Peter, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 18 Oct 1919, 346-359     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and the Kiwanis Club, Under Auspices of the Navy League of Canada. The Toronto Male Chorus first "enlivened the proceedings with several songs." Mr. Wright: The meaning of the song "Britannia Rules the Waves." Realizing what the navy has done during ...

Mercier, His Eminence Cardinal, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 14 Oct 1919, 331-345     The very sincere, spontaneous sympathy between the Canadians and the Belgians. Recalling what the Canadians did at Ypres and elsewhere during the war. Respectful worship of the graves of Canadian soldiers in France and Belgium. The new form of war that we have just been through, and how it was ...

Finlay, Lord Robert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 18 Sep 1919, 318-330     The Crown as a bond of Empire. The British connection that is a fervent feeling of attachment. The advantages to all parts of the Empire that is carried with the union of the Empire. An appeal to stick together. The magnificent part played by Canada in the war. The desire ...

Currie, Sir Arthur, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 29 Aug 1919, 303-317     The story of the last hundred days of the war. First, reference to the first engagement in which the Canadians fought, the Second Battle of Ypres. Understanding that war is simply the curse of butchery, and men who have gone through it, who have seen war stripped of all its ...

Henders, R.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 22 May 1919, 291-302     The clash of arms past; the glorious days of peace with a complete and everlasting triumph of the forces of justice and liberty here. Turning to look at the aftermath of the war; the large expenditure that has to be made, and the population that is here to meet it. ...

Cody, Hon. Dr. H.J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 22 May 1919, 287-290     President Stapells asked Dr. Cody to propose the toast to the Empire. Dr. Cody: The special fitness in proposing this toast this year. The name of Queen Victoria, inextricably linked up with great advance in the idea and practice of the Empire, and how that is so. The Empire's health, ...

MacNaughton, Professor John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 15 May 1919, 276-286     A glance over the last few years; remembering the war. Reference to Henry James becoming a British subject, and what such a gesture meant. The coming into the war by the Americans, and earlier, the glory of the Canadians. Scotland's contribution to the war effort. The predestined function of Canada. ...

Rathbone, Henry R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 1 May 1919, 264-275     Unity of the Anglo-Saxon race as the hope of the world today, and why that is so. Ways in which the British and American nations are by far the mightiest in the world. How Britain and America have demonstrated that they possess the genius for government. The British Empire and ...

Claxton, P.P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 24 Apr 1919, 251-263     The dependency of material wealth of education, and how that is so. Pleading for more financial support for education. The speaker's search for evidence of a relationship between education and wealth. An imagined scenario of the world filled with people who had forgotten everything they had been educated to know. ...

Eaton, Rev. C.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 17 Apr 1919, 234-250     Our choice between Democracy and Bolshevism as the foundation upon which we are to construct a new age. Contemplating the results of the German assault upon human liberties. Democracy and its persistence against adverse conditions down the centuries, as described by De Tocqueville. Bolshevism as the new claimant which undertakes ...