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 Townshend, Major-General Sir Charles, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 3 May 1920, 231-246     The speaker's experiences during the War. The speaker's troops: 30,000 men, the pick of the British regiments in India, and an Indian regiment. The order to advance on Baghdad with a small force, now reduced after the battle of Kut-el-Amara to 8,500 bayonets. What that meant. Facing a force of …

 Marshall, Hon. Duncan McLean, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 6 May 1920, 247-258     The future of agriculture in Canada. The increased interest in agriculture today among business men and industrial men. The interest in developing and improving agriculture in Canada. Some words with reference to the speaker's own province, Alberta. Stories respecting the difficulties during the past winter, some of them exaggerated. The …

 Amery, Lt.-Col. Leopold S., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1920), 14 Jun 1920, 259-270     After the war, hope that something would be accomplished by which the weaker and more backward nations should not be left to the selfish exploitation of the strong, but would be lifted up and protected by a common trusteeship of civilized mankind. Genuine effort made to lay the foundation of …

 Sheldon, Mark, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 8 Apr 1920, 169-179     A general description of Australia. The traditions and history of Australia. What Australians are trying to achieve. The climate, geography, and population of Australia. Captain Cook's discovery 150 years ago. The Constitution of Australia, framed largely after that of the United States. Australia's Administration lying with the Legislature in much …

 Bangs, John Kendrick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 19 Apr 1920, 180-216     Ladies' Night, with a programme which included violin solos by Frank Blachford and singing by Frank OldField and Arthur Blight. Some impressions of men of power with whom the speaker has had the rare privilege coming in contact with in the past fifteen or twenty years of a very active …

 Davey, J. Penry, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 29 Apr 1920, 217-230     The Dardanelles campaign. Criticism of this campaign and the speaker's response to it. Our position at the time of this campaign. Details of the campaign, presented along with maps for explication. Decisions made about the campaign. Activities preparatory to landing. The landing itself and what the men had to do …

 Currie, General Sir Arthur W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 13 Oct 1920, 344-355     Hope for the effectual solution of problems which confront our country dependent largely on our educational systems. The universities and the nation inseparably linked together in any wide view of the function of either institution. The nation as a field for the exercise of citizenship and for the display and …

 David, Hon. Louis Athanase, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 28 Oct 1920, 356-373     A great and altogether new idea gathering strength in the province of Quebec. The political and economic Quebec. Quebec's natural resources. The need for the co-operation of industrial pioneers to transform the natural riches into national wealth. The duty for us to industrialize. Not forgetting that Quebec, first of all, …

 Weinthal, Leo, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 4 Nov 1920, 374-406     The promised story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and river route as it is today; a reversal of this story so that instead of taking the audience from Cape Town 7,000 miles north to the Nile and the Delta and the Mediterranean, the speaker is going to take us …

 Devonshire, His Excellency the Duke of, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 11 Nov 1920, 407-416     [The Doxology was sung instead on the National Anthem on this, Armistice Day.] Reference to Armistice Day and what its observance means. The bitter disappointment that still throughout vast areas of Europe a conditions prevails not only of war, but of war in its most aggravated form. Continuing on the …

 Laurent, Louis S. St., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 25 Nov 1920, 417-430     Bringing about better understanding between the French speaking Canadians of Quebec and the English speaking Canadians of Ontario. A Quebec lawyer's view point of Canada's Civil Code. A brief sketch of the physical outlines of that Code, promulgated just before Confederation, prepared under the authority of a Statute of the …

 Brickner, Rabbi Barnett R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 9 Dec 1920, 431-440     Toronto as a city of great promise. The ties between Canada and the United States. What is meant by social progress. Social progress as a very recent thing, a new idea. Becoming truly divine when we become social-minded. Several tests of social progress: population increase; the relative distance of the …

 Barnard, Edward E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 25 Mar 1920, 441-462     Astronomy in both the United States and Canada. Speaking in the interest of the establishment of an observatory. This address is divided into several short sections with the following explanatory headings: The Value of Photography in Astronomical Work; The Rainbow, a Promise for the New Observatory; The Great Canadian and …

 Paish, Sir George, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 29 Jan 1920, 36-52     The importance of the British people to stand together for success and prosperity, to carry the world to a better time. Consequences of not standing together. The salvation of the present situation in no small measure dependent upon the British Race. The grave economic conditions of the world. How the …

 Windle, Sir Bertram, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 5 Feb 1920, 53-63     Some remarks in reference to the War. The desire that there shall be no more war. The likelihood of that realization. University reconstruction that follows after wars. The policy of founding and fostering Universities in Prussia after the reverses that country suffered some 100 years ago. The aim at that …

 Coote, William; Maguire, Rev. C.M.; Blue, Rev., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 12 Feb 1920, 64-88     Mr. William Coote, M.P.: Links between Canada and the old Ulster land. Support for the Empire from Canada and from Ulster in terms of men sent to the War. The reason the speakers are here today: to lay the lies that have been circulated in the United States about the …

 Stewart, John A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 19 Feb 1920, 89-108     Face to face with some of the most powerful reactionary influences that ever cursed the world, directed against us not as individuals but as that which we represent: the underlying idea of the Anglo-Saxon Celtic world, that of liberty under law, and law tempered by justice and made glorious by …

 MacPhail, Sir Andrew, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 4 Mar 1920, 109-125     Comparing our life now to that of thirty years ago. Use of our natural resources. The fundamental resource of nitrogen and its influence in terms of the movements of history. Our resources gone in comparison with the days of abundance. The farmer no longer a farmer when he engages in …

 Vincent, George Edgar, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 9 Mar 1920, 126-145     A League of Central and South American Nations which has been formed to eliminate yellow fever from the world. A League under a certain type of leadership from the United States, representing a general international co-operative attempt to deal with a disease which has long been a menace not only …

 Clark, Michael, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1921), 18 Mar 1920, 146-157     Recalling the great men that begat us; recalling the little Islands from which we sprung; taking mental note of how these little Islands are linking up with the enormous Countries beyond the sea which constitute the outlying portions of the British Empire. Those who came away from the Island which …