Title page reads: Prize Essay Competition of the St. Catharines Chapter I.O.D.E. Subject for 1917: "How Should the British Empire be Governed?" Also includes "Canada's Duty to the Empire" by Harold Morrey Smith (1914 winner), "Canada's Relations with Foreign Countries" by Frederick Cronyn Betts (1915 winner), and “National Military Training” by D'Arcy Argue Martin (1916 winner).
