Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Ottawa, 1903-1909 Regular meetings have been held since the autumn of 1903. The initial membership of 237 has been increased to upwards of and it may fairly be claimed for the Canadian Club of Ottawa that, through its endeavour to cultivate a robust national spirit, an intelligent patriotism and a closer feeling of unity among Canadians of all classes, to encourage the study of Canadian institutions, Canadian history, Canadian arts and literature, and Canadian resources, and to inspire the highest ideals of citizenship, it has won for itself a high position in the public estimation and has become, indeed, one of the recognized institutions of Ottawa. At the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Club, which was held on April 27 1909, a resolution was adopted in favour of the publication in book form of the more important addresses delivered before the Club since its organ ization, and the membership fee was increased from to per annum to provide funds for this purpose, so that copies of the volume might be placed in the hands of all the members. It is a matter of regret to the Officers and Executive Committee that it has not been possible to include in the present volume all of the addresses delivered before the Club since its organization. Unfortunately, no reports are available of some of the most interesting addresses to which members of the Club have been privileged to listen. Unavoidable limitations of space have, moreover, had to be considered, and have made it necessary to condense the text of the longer addresses wherever this seemed practicable. On account of the fact that the guests of the Club during the past six seasons have been drawn from almost all parts of the world, it has not been possible in all cases, in the preparation of the present volume, to submit the reports for revision to the persons by whom the addresses were delivered. In most instances the reports have been based on stenographic notes, although in some cases the Club has availed itself of the reports published in the press of Ottawa. The present volume contains reports of all the addresses which have been delivered before the Club during the year 1909, and also of a large number of the more important addresses of previous years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.