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Thomson, Peter Nesbitt, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1964), 6 Feb 1964, 204-214     The speaker's concern with recent events in Quebec, and whether, because of what is happening there, Canada is on the threshold of great and nation-shaking transitions. How the rest of the world migh

Bishop, Air Marshal William A. (Billy), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1941), 7 Nov 1940, 167-178     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and the Canadian Club. The speaker's recent flight across the Atlantic. The civilian population in England and how they are coping. Bomb damage. An illust

Diefenbaker, The Rt. Hon. John G., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1968), 28 Mar 1968, 386-395     Some personal views and beliefs, indicative of the speaker's general philosophy. Some conclusions of the recent Federal-Provincial Conference. Some of the principles being advocated. Some of the spea

Carney, Ralph W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 26 Nov 1943, 65-95     The speaker here to lend his services to Canada's War Finance Committee and to the Canadian people on behalf of our Fifth Victory Loan. The conflict between two ideas for our postwar future: the West

Goggin, Victor, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1941), 19 Oct 1940, 129-147     The speaker addresses us as a resident of the United States, voicing what he believes to be a cross-section of the opinion of the man on the street. Some recent history from the last quarter of a cen

Newman, Captain Bernard, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1943), 30 Jul 1942, 12-29     Canadian contributions to Britain, and to the war effort. Monetary gifts to Britain from Canada. The Canadian forces in Britain. The war going as well as we had any reason or right to expect, and wha

Drew, Lieutenant-Colonel George A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1941), 6 Mar 1941, 385-401     Reference to previous addresses by the speaker. Canada today. The almost limitless resources at our disposal. Development in all directions. Few limits to the opportunities open to the youth of Canad

Howe, The Honourable C.D., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1941), 4 Sep 1940, 50-69     Entering the second year of the war. Looking back at the year just past and reviewing the progress that has been made toward our war objective. A discouraging year. The magnitude of the task of chang

Drew, Hon. George, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1969), 28 Nov 1968, 86-98     The situation in the U.S.S.R. with Brezhnev's declaration that "every Communist state must adhere and submit to the policies and doctrines of the Kremlin or be subjected to the same military discipli

Williams, William E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1958), 5 Dec 1957, 121-133     Three points the speaker wishes to make before detailing his recent travels. Briefly, they are that he will not simply state encyclopedia-like facts; that in almost 37,000 miles of travel he saw noth

Garner, Sir Saville, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1957), 28 Feb 1957, 252-262     The background to the Suez crisis as it affects Britain. Oil and the Middle East. Four urgent problems with regard to the Middle East: Clearing the Canal; Permanent arrangements for the Canal; Israel

Russell, The Rev. G. Stanley, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1930), 14 Nov 1929, 301-312     A look back at other empires and their by-products. Examples of by-products of the British Empire. How the members of the Bar of the United States of America represent the greatest by-product of the

Schroeder, The Honourable Victor, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 6 Jan 1983, 160-168     Unemployment figures in Canada and the level of human tragedy represented by those figures. Economic conditions in Manitoba prior to the current recession. A critical review of the policy of the prev

O'Leary, M. Grattan, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1950), 16 Mar 1950, 258-265     Some remarks on St. Patrick's Day. The shape of the new world struggling to be born. People in Europe asking what they can do "to avert the tragedy, the moral nihilism which seem to be hemming us in?

Masaryk, Jan, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1942), 3 Dec 1941, 169-184     The speaker now as an emigrant, a refugee, of his country. The latest murders in Czechoslovakia. The hostages in France. Speaking as a citizen of Europe. A war that is everybody's. The hate that Hitl

Lyons, The Right Honourable J.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1936), 12 Jul 1935, 1-18     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and other Luncheon and Service Clubs of Toronto. Canada and Australia representing two important units in the great Empire. The King as the great unifying

Costain, Thomas B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 8 Mar 1951, 282-297     The speaker's background. The speaker's belief that there are some things we must do for our future and his hope that we will get around to doing them. A cultural review. Changes in the field of the

Mess, Lieutenant-Colonel James, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1939), 12 Jan 1939, 171-183     Reaching conclusions and interpreting news of international importance without too much criticism of the actions of our Mother Country, although our independent Canadian spirit demands that we critic

Wedgwood, Sir John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1959), 2 Apr 1959, 284-294     Some Canadian statistics that surprised the speaker. Reasons for ignorance about Canada in other countries. Some facts and history about Britain affecting trade and industrial development. Trade figu

Glasgow, Major-General The Honourable Sir Thomas William, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1941), 12 Sep 1940, 70-80     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and the Canadian Club. The speaker's association with Canadian in South Africa, in 1899, and in France in 1916. Australia and the way in which Australia f