+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ Sir George Etienne Cartier His Work for Canada and His Services to Montreal AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE CANADIAN CLUB OF MONTREAL _April 7th, 1913_ BY JOHN BOYD Author of The Memorial History of the Life and Times of Sir George Etienne Cartier (To be issued in connection with the Cartier Centenary Celebration, 1914) ISSUED BY THE CARTIER CENTENARY COMMITTEE MONTREAL 1913 THE CARTIER CENTENARY 1814-1914 Under the distinguished patronage of H. R. H. The Duke of Connaught Executive Committee Patron: SIR CHARLES TUPPER, BART. President: E. W. VILLENEUVE, ESQ. Vice-Presidents: SIR RODOLPHE FORGET HON. J. J. GUERIN HON. N. PERODEAU H. A. EKERS, ESQ. D. LORNE MCGIBBON, ESQ. Honorary Treasurers: HON. J. A. OUIMET President City & District Savings Bank H. V. MEREDITH, ESQ. General Manager, Bank of Montreal Honorary Secretaries: JOHN BOYD, ESQ. C. A. PARISEAULT, ESQ. F. ARTHUR JACKSON, ESQ. HORACE J. GAGNE, ESQ. Secretary: H. R. OVENDEN, ESQ. Bankers: THE BANK OF MONTREAL Address - - P. O. Box 188 [Illustration: SIR GEORGE ETIENNE CARTIER Born Sept. 6, 1814 Died May 23, 1873] The accompanying address has been registered in accordance with the Copyright Act by JOHN BOYD. FOREWORD. The great interest that has been aroused in the Cartier Centenary movement was shown by the large gathering which assembled at the Canadian Club luncheon in the Sailors' Institute on Monday, April 7th, 1913, to hear Mr. John Boyd speak on "Sir George Etienne Cartier, His Work for Canada and His Services to Montreal." The speaker's references to the work that Cartier had accomplished for Canada, and especially to the great services that he rendered to the City of Montreal, were enthusiastically applauded by the large audience of representative business men. The accompanying address which includes a summary of Sir George Etienne Cartier's career and achievements is but a preliminary to the Memorial History of the Life and Times of Cartier which is now being written by Mr. John Boyd, and which will deal exhaustively not only with Cartier's career but also with the whole period covered by that career, one of the most memorable periods of Canadian history. The work will be published next year under the auspices of the Cartier Centenary Committee in connection with the great commemorative celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Cartier's birth. SIR GEORGE ETIENNE CARTIER His Work for Canada and His Services to Montreal. (AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MR. JOHN BOYD BEFORE THE CANADIAN CLUB OF MONTREAL, APRIL 7th, 1913.) Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: