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 Branscombe, Edward, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 28 Mar 1928, 110-124     Mr. Branscombe was accompanied by his choir of men and boys, The Westminster Glee Singers. Our awareness of what music can do. The spiritual aspect of music. The enormous power that music has in religious observances and ceremonies. Music as the most potent former of character that the world knows. …

 Claudel, Dr. Paul, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 8 Nov 1928, 242-244     Duties of an Ambassador. The speaker as poet. The story of a Japanese poet who was given by the Emperor a big bundle of white paper that inspired him every day to write what came to his mind, and which turned into a charming book of poetry. Canada as a …

 Hicks, Seymour, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 16 Feb 1928, 47-55     The theatre in its relation to the life of the Empire. Effects of the war on the theatre in England. Our greatest heritage of language. Some comments on "movie talk." Sending over good actors with the best companies to play the English classics for the young Canadian people as one …

 White, Right Rev. W.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 26 Apr 1928, 157-172     Speculations and suggestions about China that have been made in the past. Remarks about intervention in China. Exploitation of China which has brought about the situation which has stirred China into new life and to a present situation of great promise. The nationalist movement in China. A review of major …

 Lovat, Major General Lord, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 22 Aug 1928, 179-184     The progress or consolidation of the Empire that has been going on in the last year or two. The last three years fraught with significance for the future: a review. The 1926 Imperial Conference. Lord Balfour's definition of the status of the dominions. 1927 a year devoted by the dominions …

 Magill, Robert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 2 Feb 1928, 30-37     The importance of wheat in our financial structure. The marketing of grain. Details of the current Canadian crop of wheat, with figures. Difficulties encountered in selling Canadian wheat to the world. The status of Canada's wheat markets. Consequences of the aftermath of war in Europe, especially with regard to trade …

 Moore, William H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 15 Nov 1928, 245-255     The work of the Tariff Board. The tariff as a means of creating trade channels through the Empire and elsewhere. The Empire's trade channels many and long, extending to nearly every land on the earth, to 95 countries. A rough sketch of the more important changes that have taken place …

 Hobbs, Frederick and The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 11 Oct 1928, 210-212     Performance by members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, who are presenting in Toronto this week the delightful operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Mr. Hobbs introduces the Company and talks about letting people in the Old Country know about Canada.

 Sandwell, Bernard K., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 23 Feb 1928, 56-68     Views of a very mixed character about the budget. The excessively political nature of budgets in Canada. The budget as it effects changes in the fiscal system. The chief changes as far as the tariff is concerned appearing to be in the textile schedules, and one or two other smaller …

 Ferguson, Hon. G. Howard, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 4 Oct 1928, 197-209     Impressions gathered by the speaker from his visit last summer to France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Norway. The outstanding progress being made by the German people. Examples of industry, efficiency, full employment, and hard work by the Germans. Agriculture in Denmark. The Danish educational system. Patriotism to be …

 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 …

 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 …

 Kelly, The Honourable John Hall, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 6 Dec 1928, 282-293     The gradual driving back of the salmon with the advent of white settlers, the growth of towns and villages, and the pollution of rivers and streams. Now generally admitted that salmon, as a rule, do not wander very far away from the mouth of the stream up which they return …

 Draper, Brig. Gen. D.G., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 3 May 1928, 173-178     Some facts of the speaker's personal background and history. Loyalty to the British Empire as one requisite of good citizenship in Canada. Being good Canadians and what that means. The importance of Canadian citizens to be of a high character and endowed with true and loyal patriotism, educated to conserve …

 Magrath, C.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 15 Mar 1928, 83-94     The time for Canada to courageously take hold of the colonizing of this country, using its credit to that end. The asset that newcomers will be to Canada. Some personal background of the speaker. The story of the Galts and the colonization of the territory from Guelph to Goderich. The …

 Hamilton, Clayton, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 19 Apr 1928, 144-156     The drama which is enacted in the theatre from the point of view of the playwrights, directors, actors or producers. The audience as partners in the theatre business and collaborators in the creation of dramatic art. The public the only partner which furnishes the capital on which alone the business …

 Steele, Captain Howard, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 26 Jan 1928, 11-29     A brief historical review of the Mounted Police (formerly The Royal North-West Mounted Police) in the Arctic or sub-Arctic since 1894 when the first detachment was sent to the Yukon just before the great gold rush. The speaker relates the story of why the Mounted Police were sent there, and …

 Edgar, Professor Pelham, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 9 Feb 1928, 38-46     Reasons why the names of Haig and Hardy will live on. An estimate of Hardy's reach of power and of his limitations. Hardy's death now leaving us without a recognized leader. Confronting some of the facts and problems of his career. A review of many of Hardy's works, such as …

 Amery, the Right Honourable L.C.S.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 19 Jan 1928, 1-10     The impossibility of separating the growth of Canada's national life from the development of the British Empire. A brief historical review of Canada as part of the British Empire. The influence of the United Empire Loyalists and their descendants upon the whole conception of a united Empire in Great Britain, …

 Nelson, John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1929), 22 Nov 1928, 256-269     *Preoccupation of late in Canada with regard to her status; the inability of leaders to agree upon a definition of it. Recalling some services rendered us by other races, services too often forgotten by us, and mentioning some debts due them which we should acknowledge, even if we cannot pay. …