Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Canadian Club Movement The membership included men of all kinds of political and public thought and the roll for 1897-8 numbered in 1907 it was about In 1898 A. E. Huestis became Secretary of the Club and remained in that capacity with great success until 1907, when he was succeeded by J. W. H. Mackie. This Club early adopted the principle of a weekly luncheon, addressed by some representative Canadian or prominent visitor, for a limited period of half-an-hour, and, in 1903-4, ...
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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Canadian Club Movement The membership included men of all kinds of political and public thought and the roll for 1897-8 numbered in 1907 it was about In 1898 A. E. Huestis became Secretary of the Club and remained in that capacity with great success until 1907, when he was succeeded by J. W. H. Mackie. This Club early adopted the principle of a weekly luncheon, addressed by some representative Canadian or prominent visitor, for a limited period of half-an-hour, and, in 1903-4, commenced to publish its Proceedings. The speeches during these years dealt with every conceivable variety of subject and personal Opinion. Amongst the Canadian speakers were such men as the Hon. G. W. Ross, the Hon. A. B. Aylesworth, Colonel G. T. Denison, W. F. Mac lean, m.p., Sir Sandford Fleming, Sir T. G. Shaughnessy, the Hon. J. Israel Tarte, the Hon. G. E. Foster, the Hon. Clifford Sifton, J. S. Ewart, X.C., H. B. Ames, m.p., Dr. Goldwin Smith, C. Marci], m.p., C. M. Hays, Prof. S. B. Leacock, B. E. Walker, J. S. Willison, H. Bourassa, m.p., the Hon. H. R. Emmerson, and Ralph Smith, m.p. Earl Grey was the guest of a special banquet on Nov. 29, 1906. From Great Britain came the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt. Hon. John Morley, the Rt. Hon. James Bryce, Dr. William Osler, H. Rider Haggard, m.p., General Booth and Rudyard Kipling. Some United States speakers were Booker T. Washington, President Elliot of Harvard, James H. Eckels and Andrew Carnegie. The Presidents of the Club during this period were as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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