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      Photocopy of the Woodstock Directory for 1912. Includes a general index, a classified business directory, miscellaneous directory and an alphabetical listing of names, occupation and residence.

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      Annual Report for 1912 of the Waterloo Public Library.

      (Condition: Good.) Original is double-sided; side two is record number ES7003

      (Condition: Good.)

      An assessment roll is a public record of taxable property. The headings for each column on a page is listed under full text.

      The book focuses on the invasion of Upper Canada by a small American army commanded by Brigadier General William Hull and the pivotal surrender of his forces at Detroit. It contains a collection of transcribed letters and documents from a variety of sources, predominantly military. The book also includes various …

 Croft, H. Page, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 12 Sep 1912, 12-20     The very great awakening in the British Isles as to the true meaning of Empire. Recent events that have entirely altered the outlook of the average British citizen upon Canadian affairs. An interest and affection that has been created and which the speaker believes neither time nor stress will obliterate. …

 Long, Right Honourable Walter H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 26 Sep 1912, 21-28     Reference to two men who, when they lived, were working for the same object, struggling to lead their fellow-countrymen in the same direction: Lord Beaconsfield, better known as Benjamin Disraeli, and Sir John A. Macdonald. Ways in which both these men were Imperial statesmen. The inevitability that the plan and …

 Riddell, Honourable William Renwick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 23 Oct 1912, 29-48     The importance of the fact that Canada is British, particularly for the future of the English-speaking world. The difference between Canada's people and the people to the south of her as what fixed the destiny of Canada. The lack of explanation as to why the English adventurers, after they had …

 Rowell, N.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 31 Oct 1912, 49-55     Our view as to what our Imperial relations should be, dependent largely on our conception of Empire, and of the ideal towards which we should work. Some facts and some principles upon which, the speaker feels sure, we can all agree. A detailed list of six items follows. Four suggestions …

 Ross, Sir George, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 7 Nov 1912, 56-69     The founding and equipping of a nation, analogous to the founding and equipping of an industry. For situation, for climate, for resources, for accessibility to the trade and commerce of the world, no nation more favourably situation than Canada. Some territorial details of Canada. Natural resources, greater materially than the …

 Parkin, George R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 14 Nov 1912, 70-80     The great Congress of Universities of the Empire held in London last summer. The range of our experience on education matters. Comparing our own educational system and experience with those of other nations. A consideration of the essential aims of education: to maintain a high standard of morality in all …

 Macqueen, Lt.-Col. Fred W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 21 Nov 1912, 81-90     The birth of the conscious, imperial intelligence of Great Britain, a world power built upon freedom. External power and internal freedom as the attributes of political immortality. A detailed examination of the peculiar imperialistic features of Canada of the past, the present, and the future. Two great lessons we can …

 Hearst, Honourable W.H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 28 Nov 1912, 91-104     The great heritage we possess in being subjects of the great British Empire. A look at the area and population of the British Empire. Empire trade. Control of the money wealth of the world through London. Appreciating the influence of the Empire. What the Old Land has been doing in …

 Gilmour, J.T., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 5 Dec 1912, 105-111     The attitude of society towards the delinquent through several long and cruel centuries. Our tendency, when we think of prisoners, to think "en masse." Two basic facts that we should lever keep before us when dealing with delinquents: that the great majority of delinquents are handicapped in life's race either …

 Singh, Dr. Sundar, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 25 Jan 1912, 112-116     The importance of the subject of the Sikhs in Canada to the British Empire. The customs and religion of the Sikhs, who are a part of the Empire. History and origins of this religion, founded by a great teacher called Nana, born in the Punjaub in the northwest provinces of …

 O'Hagan, Thomas, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 1 Feb 1912, 117-124     Celebrating, this year, the centenary of one of our greatest masters of fiction, Charles Dickens. Feeling the loss of his son, Charles Tennyson Dickens, who passed away yesterday. Forming an estimate of the genius of Dickens with some knowledge of the conditions of the times into which he was born; …

 Archer-Shee, Major M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 6 Feb 1912, 125-133     Promoting discussion of a state-owned Atlantic cable; enlisting the support of the press in Toronto to get them to back up the Government of Canada in pressing upon the Home Government the urgent necessity of summoning a subsidiary conference to deal with the all red cable route. The importance of …

 Wright, A.W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1913), 15 Feb 1912, 134-145     The need for Canada to make up its mind quickly and decidedly, as to what it is going to do to maintain for Canada the control of the water-borne trade of the west and the northwest. Consequences for the future of making a mistake now. Three ways proposed by which …