Empire Club Speeches: Being Addresses Delivered Before the Empire Club of Canada During its Session of 1903-04

Includes speech by Sir Sandford Fleming about cables and telegraphs. Other topics include: the French Shore Question; preferential trade within the Empire; qualities which go to make a good citizen of the Empire; the "Fatuous Insolence" of the Canadians; the Canadian national character; loyalty of French Canadians to the Empire; conscience as a national asset; railway taxation; manufacturing industry of Canada considered geographically; the Russo-Japanese War; navigation of Hudson's Bay and Straits; practical imperialism. Also a list of members of the Empire Club.