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Grier, A. Monro, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 16 May 1912, 250-261     The proposition that Toronto, outside of the British Isles themselves, is or should be hereafter the most considerable city in the whole of the British Empire. Looking at the matter geographically. C

Macfarland, Henry B.F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 28 Oct 1913, 21-50     Speaking for the ideal of international judicature. "The Supreme Court of the World" no longer simply an ideal or even an idea. The adoption of such a court in principle by many nations of the world,

McBride, Hon. Sir Richard, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 31 Oct 1913, 51-59     A few western words on a theme of Canada and Empire. Canada emerging from the status of youth, and quickly taking on ourselves that of the full grown man; a time of trial, a period that needs courage

Riddell, Honourable William Renwick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 6 Nov 1913, 60-78     The good it would do us to have some knowledge of how another looked upon our land and some of its inhabitants a hundred years ago. To that end, the speaker tells the story of Samuel, White, of Adams

Hughes, Col. The Honourable Sam, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 14 Nov 1913, 79-90     The speaker's view of how money had in the past been spent on the militia. Conceiving the idea of establishing the cadet corps on a universal basis throughout the Dominion. Response to the idea, part

Hocken, His Worship Mayor H.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 27 Nov 1913, 91-91     On the City of Toronto Street Railway Question, the speaker addressed the Empire Club of Canada on the "Proposed Street Railway Purchase," this title indicating His Worship's solution of the problem.

Gourlay, R.S., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 1 Dec 1913, 91-91     On the City of Toronto Street Railway Question, the speaker addressed the Empire Club of Canada on the "Harbour Board's Plan for Solving the Toronto Railway Problem," an alternative scheme to that pr

McNeill, Rev. John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 3 Dec 1913, 92-92     Some of the speaker's experiences in Evangelistic labours which touched Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, South Africa, Gibraltar, Malta and the United States. [Synopsis only of this address a

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 axi

Otter, Major. Gen. Sir William D., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 15 Jan 1914, 110-121     The speaker's personal experience and background with the Canadian Militia over upwards of fifty years. The aim and task of this address to place before the audience this important subject in as clea

James, C.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 23 Jan 1914, 122-134     Instilling into the minds and thoughts, particularly of the young people of Canada, to "Know thyself; know thy country, its people, its powers and its possibilities," including the study of agricultu

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

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 theat

Pearson, Sir Arthur, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 7 Jan 1919, 1-19     The gallant men who with courage, resolution and determination are learning or have learned to be blind under the speaker's care at St. Dunstan's, a generic term for a group of establishments. The or

Cole, Arthur A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 7 Dec 1916, 311-319     Canada as a country of large railway developments, considered on a per capita basis. The relationship between railway development in Canada and the opening up of our vast agricultural areas. The impo

Macallum, Professor A.B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 14 Dec 1916, 320-326     The change that we must make in order to get efficiency in national life. The lesson this war is teaching us. The need to employ all the scientific lore that is available today to human kind, to appl

Code, Ven. Archdeacon, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 21 Dec 1916, 327-339     The constant singing of our national anthem as one of the potent factors in developing and enriching our patriotism. Nourishing and stimulating our patriotism by the solemn singing together of this h

Denison, Colonel George T., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 28 Dec 1916, 340-350     Propositions being made by our enemy which to the speaker's mind are exceedingly dangerous, and which make one exceedingly anxious for the future. The speaker's conviction, even at the beginning of t

Squair, Professor John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 4 Jan 1917, 351-359     Some personal reminiscences of Paris and the first time the speaker saw it. The Place de la Concorde then and now, and what it means to the French people and nation. Getting an impression of the arti

McArthur, Peter, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 11 Jan 1917, 360-370     The foundations of Canada laid by wise, poor men, and their names are forgotten. The real work of making Canada a part of the Empire the work that was done by the plain people. The story of the settl