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 Howard, His Excellency, The Right Honourable Sir Esme, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 27 Apr 1926, 179-186     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto, and The Rotary Club of Toronto. Looking into the future at the three greatest international problems that there are: the evolution of the British Empire; the Empire's relations with the United States; the maintenance of …

 Turner, Philip J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 4 Feb 1926, 34-40     The homeliness and peace about the English countryside that is not to be found elsewhere. The soul of England in the countryside. Rapid changes in English village life in recent years with the result that customs and institutions of even a decade ago are no longer familiar. Watching the old …

 Brancker, Sir Sefton, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 22 Mar 1926, 116-127     Toronto leading the way in Canadian Aviation. Airplane grounds in the area: Armour Heights, Leaside, and Camp Borden; a flourishing aircraft factory; a cadet school at the University. The Ontario Government leading the way by employing an air service for forest protection and survey, possibly the largest in the world. …

 McKinnon, John S., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 18 Mar 1926, 102-115     The success of the British Empire Exhibition. The participation and effect of that participation, of the Princes of Wales and the Royal Family. The origins of the Exhibition. Special buildings erected by the different countries for their exhibits. A detailed description of the Exhibition grounds and buildings, and the contents …

 Winnington-Ingram, The Right Honourable Right Rev. Arthur F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 19 Aug 1926, 199-206     The invisible but unbreakable bonds of the British Empire. What those bonds are. The bond of common blood. Keeping Canada supplied with British stock. The Church Settlement Scheme. The common homeland. What the British flag stands for. Our common flag, indicating that we are both standing for the ideals that …

 Webb, Col. R.H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 3 Dec 1926, 289-298     Interest in the problems of Western Canada, one of which is the Hudson Bay Railway. Interest in the development of the Hudson Route, and particularly to Port Nelson. Hudson Bay as an all-year-round route. The prosperity of Toronto, Ontario, and the whole of the Dominion lying in the development of …

 Bateman, G.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 25 Feb 1926, 67-75     Mining itself as old as agriculture, if not older, and next to agriculture the most permanent of all our industries. Some history of mining. The search for gold, closely identified with the advance of our civilization. Development in Northern Ontario over the past 20 years. This growing industry the greatest …

 Dafoe, John W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 11 Mar 1926, 89-101     The political interest in Australia. The lack of history; the interesting present; a future which makes an appeal to the historic imagination. Marked differences between Australia and Canada, due to a variety of causes which can be easily sorted out and identified. The politics of Australia. A brief history of …

 Shortt, Professor Adam, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 28 Jan 1926, 24-33     The danger of failing to see the forest for the trees. Some aspects of the general forest for study and supplement by special knowledge of the trees which constitute the forest. The impossibility of knowing the forest without knowing the trees; the possibility of knowing the trees without knowing the …

 Pickford, Sir Alfred, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 22 Apr 1926, 169-178     What the Boy Scout Movement is, and what it is not. An anecdote with regard to the uniform the speaker is wearing. Some facts and figures with regard to the history and development of the Boy Scout movement. The unique code of the Scout Law; the lack of negatives. Characteristics …

 Willingdon, His Excellency Viscount, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 15 Nov 1926, 269-276     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. Some personal background and history of the speaker. Limitations on the subject matter of the speaker's addresses due to his present official position. The speaker's first impressions on his arrival in Canada. The wonderful kindness …

 Smiddy, His Excellency the Right Honourable Timothy A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 15 Apr 1926, 159-168     Ways in which Canada is intimately bound up with the Irish Free State. The similar constitutional status of the Irish Free State with that of the Dominion of Canada. The Irish Free State, like Canada, free to determine and work out her own destiny in her own way, without any …

 Wrong, Prof. George M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 9 Dec 1926, 299-310     The idea, sometimes expressed in Canada, that Great Britain has been standing in the way of the development of equality in respect of Canada. The speaker's belief that there is no truth in that. The value in the Conference in London in that it does reveal a state of mind: …

 Davies, Rev. Dr. Trevor H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 21 Jan 1926, 16-23     The role of the press in an election. The inability of Parliament to exist against the pressure of public opinion. The dependency of law courts upon public opinion. Two form of public opinion: solid and fluid. A discussion of each. Why this is such an interesting time in which to …

 Vijayaraghavacharya, Diwan Bahadur, Sir T., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 7 Sep 1926, 207-213     Canada within the British Empire. India within the British Empire. An examination of India within the Empire. India's judicial service. India's Parliamentary institutions. Reaching a happy medium. The 1919 declaration that the goal of India is Parliamentary self-government within the Empire. Getting near and nearer to that goal daily in …

 Waugh, Prof. W.T., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 25 Nov 1926, 277-288     The upcoming 200-year anniversary of James Wolfe's birth in Westerham in Kent. The widespread tendency these days to belittle the claim of General Wolfe as to his share in the conquest of Canada. Ways in which such criticisms are exaggerated and some of them totally false. A discussion and review …

 Langham, Right Honourable Lord Darling of, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 30 Sep 1926, 214-221     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. Canadian hearts in the homeland. Some words from Lord Bramwell on socialism. Canada's peculiar position of being absolutely capable of governing itself, but proud to live under the flag of the British Empire, and under …

 Heaton, Prof. H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 4 Mar 1926, 76-88     Some ways in which Canada and Australia are alike: in settlement and its attendant problems such as the working out of the character of the country, the exploitation of its natural resources, the opening up of means of transportation by land and by water, the devising of a system of …

 Tory, H.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 1 Apr 1926, 128-144     Some Canadian characteristics. Taking the broader vision and looking out upon the world in which we live and seeing ourselves in the larger relation of the great world of which we form a part. Asking and responding to three questions, in order to get at the heart of the subject: …

 Moore, Tom, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1927), 8 Apr 1926, 145-158     The need for proper understanding between the various sections of the community so that real national and international unity might be achieved. A definition of labour, and its various meanings under Trades and Labour Congress, Labour Unions, the Labour Political Party, etc. Observations made by the speaker to be those …