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MacDonald, Dr. J.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 2 Feb 1915, 44-53     Today American looking back to Europe to the ancient homes of our peoples in Britain, in France, in Germany, in the Low Countries, in Italy, and in the Near East. Asking what America has to show and what has Europe to learn? The two English-speaking nations of North America standing ...

Mawson, Sir Douglas, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 22 Jan 1915, 35-43     Support form Adelaide University for scientific expeditions. The speaker's connection to the Empire, and his interest in Canada. Reference to Dr. Machell from Ontario on the Shackleton expedition, medical man on the "Nimrod." The British Empire as a phase in the unification of the world. The British Empire suffering severely ...

Massie, Major Robert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1919), 17 Jan 1918, 86-96     the work this year at the front. Increases in terms of shell fire and difficulty over 1916. Daily casualties. Worsening ground conditions. The exceedingly good work done by other branches of the service such as aeroplane observation, medical corps, engineers and transport, with specific instances. The speaker's personal experience of ...

O'Hagan, Thos., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 22 Apr 1915, 166-172     A story which makes appeal to humanity. The story of a little kingdom, a small people before whom last July there lay two courses, the one leading to peace, preservation, and dishonour, the other leading to the horrors and devastations of the most unhallowed war that has ever enveloped the ...

Dancy, S.N., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 4 Mar 1915, 89-104     The speaker, addressing the audience as a Canadian, born in the City of Belleville, of good Canadian parents, who succeeded in going into Germany and looking around behind the German lines, and succeeding in coming back to his native land. The far-reaching nature of the propaganda organised by Germany in ...

Dent, J.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 15 Apr 1915, 156-165     ... business men have followed as closely as I have myself; but I would like to point...

Gardiner, George W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1919), 27 Sep 1918, 291-298     ... out of his grounds to business by his colored servant, when he noticed...

Rowell, N.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 18 Jan 1917, 371-388     ... business men and scientists in Great Britain, and to ask their co-operation...

MacKendrick, Lieut.-Col. W.G., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1919), 27 Mar 1918, 176-187     ...-Peronne road, and all that the Bosche had to do to put us out of business...

Wright, Peter, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1919), 5 Dec 1918, 407-416     How the British Empire is different from other empires, and how different from the Germans. Reasons why the seamen have stood loyally by the Crown, and used every effort to bring Great Britain successfully through this great war. Gratitude for what the Navy League has done over the last 14 ...

Maude, Cyril, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 20 Feb 1919, 132-137     Anecdotes of women's courage and work during the war. Woman, proved to be the most wonderful nationalist. The hope of everyone that both in America and England she is going to prove the most wonderful factor for everlasting peace. Stories of work that women have done in England, and the ...

Borden, Right Hon. Sir Robert L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1915), 5 Dec 1914, 1-14     The spirit which pervades the people of Canada at the present time: the desire to help, sympathy, co-operation, self-sacrifice. The speaker's conviction that the statesmen of Great Britain strove most earnestly to find an honourable way by which peace might be preserved and war avoided. Why it is that war ...

Brown, Lieut.-Col. Sir George McLaren, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 4 Feb 1919, 99-108     ... to thousands of Canadians who came to him for purely business reasons and who left...

Guinness, Capt. Hon. Rupert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 5 Oct 1916, 205-209     The speaker's object today to get the audience interested in his mission to get men for the Royal Navy. Why Great Britain is recruiting for the Navy from the Dominion. Some personal background and history of the speaker. The kind of men wanted. Difficulties involved in recruiting and training. A ...

Lash, Z.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 29 Mar 1917, 517-528     A submission by the speaker, a legal argument for his proposition with regard to Canada's status within the Empire and the part she can play in determining her foreign affairs. Great Britain as the nation of the Empire. Canada's lack of autonomy over her own affairs, having no status as ...

Eaton, Rev. Charles Aubrey, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 1 Mar 1917, 463-474     Ways in which this war has cast a searing light into the souls of the nations. Revelations about Germany, England, and this beautiful Canada of ours. Our heroic Canadian boys. Three great fundamental facts concerning the general history of mankind, revealed through the war: that democracy is the ultimate end ...

Neil, Rev. Dr. John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1919), 8 Apr 1918, 188-199     The speaker's recent return from overseas, where he was sent by the Military Service Board of the Presbyterian Church to convey greetings to the chaplains and the men. The address is a detailed description of that visit to Great Britain and France, where he saw the Canadian forces in training ...

McArthur, Peter, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 11 Jan 1917, 360-370     ...It appears that before coming to this country he was engaged in business...

Cameron, Lieut.-Col. Sir Douglas, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 12 Apr 1917, 538-544     The speaker's purpose "to make some reference to the country in which we live, its resources and potential wealth, so that we may feel called upon here and now to make the greatest sacrifices that Britons have ever made; and theirs is a history of devotion and sacrifice for the ...

Donovan, A.E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 16 Mar 1916, 128-136     ... and financial systems are being ruined, depleted and absolutely put out of business...