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Chevrier, The Honourable Lionel, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 3 Feb 1955, 172-181     A consideration of the St. Lawrence Seaway from three angles: The Treaty Rights and obligations upon the St. Lawrence; The works and facilities to be constructed thereon; Their effect upon the economy. In the following discussion, the address takes the form of responses to specific questions. They are: What rights ...

Stephens, Major George W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1912), 3 Nov 1910, 70-79     Canada's present rate of increase which will, during the 20th century, contribute to the Empire a population exceeding that now occupying the British Isles, and produce from one quarter of her available wheat areas in the West more wheat then now comprises the total wheat crop of the United States. ...

Lynch-Staunton, The Hon. Senator George, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 29 Nov 1928, 270-281     Holding up to the light the arguments, pro and con, for the extension of our waterways, in order that the audience may see whether they are sterile or fit to put under the hen. An intention to draw the audience's attention to certain evidence, and ask that they make deductions ...

Hogg, Dr. Thomas H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1940), 11 Apr 1940, 426-445     The St. Lawrence navigation and power project as a mammoth undertaking that has periodically appeared and disappeared from the field of notice of the average citizen of Ontario and Canada and which has now reappeared at a very critical period in Canadian history when all our best energies are needed ...

Armour, Stuart D., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1966), 27 Jan 1966, 155-168     A brief history of Toronto, Kingston, and other ports along the St. Lawrence Seaway. Some statistics of use of the Seaway, particularly by ocean-going vessels. The close relationship between trade and transportation. What most people don't realize in terms of shipments of manufacturing goods, and the stature enjoyed by Toronto ...

McNaughton, General A.G.L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 6 Dec 1951, 121-136     Problems in relation to boundary waters and waters which cross the boundary between Canada and the United States. The difficult nature of the problems because of the technical considerations relating to the use of water; the complex nature because they involve matters which are of concern both within Canada, between ...

Goforth, Professor W.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 22 Mar 1928, 95-109     An assurance of the support from Montreal engineers, lawyers, business men and even a few academics for the great scheme of improved communication and electrical development of the St. Lawrence. Some comments on the controversy surrounding the project. Considerations that have been made in studying and scrutinizing the potential advantages ...

MacLeod, Norman M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1939), 13 Apr 1939, 361-376     Promoting the future greatness of our beloved Canada and our beloved Empire. The speaker's practical observations and some conclusions from his recent journey coast to coast in Canada where he has been afforded a fresh and extensive opportunity of viewing some of our national problems in their actual geographic and ...

Woodward, His Excellency the Hon. Stanley, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 4 Dec 1950, 121-132     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. A change of topic from one of the good relations between Canada and the United States, due to the recent Chinese Communist attack in Korea. Now on the "brink of the precipice" seeing before us ...