Empire Club of Canada

Empire Club of Canada

The Empire Club of Canada, established in 1903, is a Canadian speakers' forums.

Past speakers have included:
* Indira Gandhi
* Brian Mulroney
* The Dalai Lama
* Pierre Trudeau
* Arthur Meighen
* Edward Heath
* Margaret Thatcher
* Bill Gates
* Lord Carrington
* Robert Borden
* Robert Baden-Powell
* Anthony Eden
* William Lyon Mackenzie King
* Audrey Hepburn
* David Rockefeller
* Richard M. Nixon
* Golda Meir
* Charles Cahan
* Gregory Clark
* Duke of Windsor
* Joe Clark
* Neville Chamberlain
* John Diefenbaker
* James Callaghan
* Louis St. Laurent
* Harold Macmillan
* Robert McNamara
* Ronald Reagan
* Margaret Mead
* Prince Philip
* Winston S. Churchill
* Tsiang Tingfu
* Howard Taft
* Lester B. Pearson
* Billy Graham
* Vladimir Putin
* Hamar Greenwood
* Sir Denys Henderson [cite press release |url=http://www.empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?FT=yes&SpeechID=332 |title=Pushing the Perimeters—The Changing International Business Scene | publisher=Empire Club | accessdate=2008-01-14]

elected past presidents

* William Robinson Clark, 1905-1906
* George Drew, 1932-1933
* Roland Michener, 1964
* Henry N. R. Jackman,1971-1972
* Allan Leal, 1975-1976
* Fredrick L. R. Jackman,1993-1994
* John Niles, 2006-2007

Past Presidents have included a Governor General of Canada, a Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, three Premiers of Ontario, six members of the Clergy and two Brigadier Generals, two Major Generals, a number of Lieutenant Colonels, Colonels and Majors of the military.

References

External links

* [http://www.empireclubfoundation.com/aboutecc.asp Empire Club of Canada]


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