"There is, in the corridor of the Parliament Buildings at Toronto,
the copy of a splendid portrait of Brock, full of life and action.
By some arrangement with the Minister of Education in every
Province, or even without it, perhaps a copy of this picture could
be placed in every school in the land.
"(6) As the city of Toronto is very likely to expropriate the Knox
College property, it might be well to suggest to the city
authorities that this new park should be opened in October with
proper ceremonies and named Brock Park. In this connection, it
might be well to recall that the lower portion of Spadina Avenue
was, until recently, known as Brock Street.
"(7) It is recommended that these suggestions shall be brought to
the attention of the Federal and Provincial Governments, and every
means should be taken to convince the authorities that on October
13th, 1912, our people should hang some votive offering on the
shrine of the hero of Upper Canada.
"(8) That copies of this report be sent to the National Council of
Women and to the Secretary of the Imperial Order of the Daughters
of the Empire inviting their concurrence.
"J. S. CARSTAIRS, _Chairman_."
This Report was adopted tentatively, and in order to secure as wide as
possible a co-operation from other patriotic Associations, it was
agreed, on the motion of Colonel Denison, seconded by Mr. C. E.
Macdonald, that the Centenary of Sir Isaac Brock's death, Sunday,
October 13th, 1912, be commemorated by an excursion to Queenston Heights
on the 12th, and that patriotic and historical societies, clubs and
regiments, etc., be asked to send not more than three delegates to a
meeting to be held on Wednesday, September 25th, at 4.30 o'clock, in the
Canadian Foresters' Building, to discuss a plan of commemoration.
In accordance with this resolution the following societies were
circularized, and asked to co-operate in the celebration:
SOCIETIES: British Empire League; Caledonian Society; Canadian Club;
Canadian Defence League; Daughters of the Empire, Niagara Falls, Ont.;
Daughters of the Empire, St. Catharines; Empire Club; Historical
Society, Niagara Falls, Ont.; Historical Society, Niagara-on-the-Lake;
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire; Irish Protestant and Benevolent
Society, Toronto; Lundy's Lane Historical Society, Niagara Falls, Ont.;
Ontario Historical Society; St. Andrew's Society, Toronto; St.
Catharines' Historical Society; St. George's Society, Toronto; Sons of
England, Toronto; Sons of Scotland Benevolent Association, Toronto;
Women's Canadian Historical Society, Toronto; Women's Canadian Club,
Toronto; Women's Historical Society, Hamilton; Women's Institute,
Queenston; Women's Institute, Stamford; York Pioneers' Association.
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