Canada (nation)
Found in 2830 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [24] [Sep] [1922]
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1924
Letter from Walter Grant Morden ("The People", 49 Wellington Street, Strand, London) to WSC on: Dr Black, former Deputy Minister of Emigration in Canada, and Mervyn Brown, founder of the Canada Colonisation Association, who will be dining with WSC and Morden to discuss the scheme to form a private corporation to aid the transfer of "our surplus unproductive population from here to other parts of the Empire; the Government's attitude to the scheme.
(Untitled), 02 Jul 1924
(Untitled), 10 Apr 1922
Letter from Dr J Murray Clark (Clark, McPherson, Campbell and Jarvis, barristers and solicitors, The Kent Building, 156 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/122/24 and calling for the co-ordination of information about the disbursement of foreign money to foment unrest in the United States, Canada and South Africa and elsewhere in the Empire.
(Untitled), 31 Aug 1921
Pamphlet: "The relations between the British Dominion of Virginia and the Dominion of Canada", a paper read by Dr J Murray Clark of Toronto, Canada at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Sent with CHAR 2/122/23.
(Untitled), 13 Feb 1942
Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Canada [William Mackenzie King] clarifying the scope and functions of the Pacific War Council, and agreeing that it is not essential for Canada to be represented on the Council at this stage.
(Untitled), 06 Mar 1942
Telegram from the Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] to WSC welcoming the statement of policy for the "earliest possible realization of complete self government in India"; offers to make an early appointment of a High Commissioner for Canada in India.
(Untitled), Jun 1940
Letter from 1st Lord Queenborough [earlier Almeric Paget] to John Colville [Private Secretary to WSC], asking him to show enclosure to WSC; encloses a copy of a letter from Arthur Meighen [Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate] with opinions about war expressed in Canada and the United States; annotated; with acknowledgement from Colville.
(Untitled), 13 Sep 1906
Letter from Hamar Greenwood (Whitby, Ontario, Canada) to WSC describing his tour of Canada and the good reception given by Canadians to WSC's letter assuring them that the change of government in Britain will bring about no fundamental change in imperial policy. Encloses related newspaper cuttings [See CHAR 2/27/34].
(Untitled), 03 Sep [1906] - 08 Sep [1906]
Cuttings from The Toronto World and The Toronto Globe on Hamar Greenwood's return to his native town of Whitby, [Ontario, Canada] and WSC's letter to him assuring Canadians that the change of government in Britain will bring about no fundamental changes in imperial policy. 7 papers. Originally sent with CHAR 2/27/33.
(Untitled), 27 Sep 1907
Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Barbon Manor, Kirkby Lonsdale, [Yorkshire]) to WSC on the dispute with Sir Robert Bond [Prime Minister of Newfoundland, later part of Canada], the conduct of the governmnent of Natal [South Africa], and the agreement by King Edward VII to accept the Cullinan Diamond.
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1908
Letter from 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (Hotel St Regis, Fifth Avenue and Fifty Fifth Street, New York, [United States]) to WSC urging him to go on a speaking tour of Canada and describing the prospects of that country retaining its links with Britain as "touch and go". Signed typescript. Illustration of hotel in letter head.
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1908
Letter from J Nash (10 Downing Street) to Edward Marsh on the nomination of chairmen of royal commissions and the refusal of Herbert Asquith [alter 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to see a deputation about Canadian cattle.
(Untitled), 20 Mar 1908
Letter from F W Giddens, private secretary to the Canadian Deputy Minsister of Labour (Queen Anne's Mansions, St James's Park, [London]) to Edward Marsh (Colonial Office) enclosing the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act and a related return to Parliament [see CHAR 2/38/23-24]. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), Mar 1907
The Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act (6-7 Edward VII, chap. 20) Sent with CHAR 2/38/22 15,[1p].
(Untitled), 1908
Copy of return to Parliament relating to the [Canadian] Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, showing the proceedings under the Act from March 22, 1907, to January 15, 1908 Sent with CHAR 2/38/22 14p.
(Untitled), 01 May 1909
Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (The Daily Mail) to WSC advising him to meet Canadian journalists, especially Sir Hugh Graham of the Montreal Star.
(Untitled), 07 Jun [1922]
Letter from Shirley Carson Jenney (Box 91, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) to WSC conveying messages to WSC from Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lady Randolph Churchill, George Meredith and Mary Shelley on the Irish question, increasing German influence in Canada, the nature of the after-life, and other matters. Encloses CHAR 2/123/12-35 and asks WSC to try to get it published.
(Untitled), 06 Dec 1921
Letter from Professor George Wrong (University of Toronto, [Canada]) to WSC criticising WSC's reported assertion that "the title deeds of the British Empire are deposited at Westminster" as being unhelpful to Wrong's efforts to strengthen the bonds between Canada and Great Britain. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/120/61-62.
(Untitled), 06 Dec 1921
Typescript copy of CHAR 2/120/59-60.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1922
Suggested draft [by Lionel Curtis] of a letter from WSC to Professor George Wrong suggesting that WSC's statement [that the title deeds of the British Empire were deposited at Westminster] was reported out of context in Canada but arguing that such a statement is fair as long as the Imperial Conference meets in London and could justifiably be adjusted if Ottawa ever became the seat of the Conference. Sent with CHAR 2/120/68. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/120/71-72.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1922
Carbon copy of CHAR 2/120/69-70.
(Untitled), 23 Jun 1929
Letter from [WSC] to Frederick Guest describing how the opposition in the Conservative Party to the granting of Liberal peerages prevents Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] from offering Guest one, advising Guest to join the Conservative Party, where WSC will be able to help him procure a suitable seat, and discussing the arrangements for his (WSC's) tour of Canada, the United States and South America. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1927
Telegram from J E Poole [news representative in London of the "Montreal Star"] reporting that Sir Thomas White, the former Canadian Finance Minister, has written to the press contradicting WSC on Canada's financial contribution during the war and requesting that WSC make a statement in reply. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/151/63-64.