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IMPRESSIONS OF CANADA AND THE 
UNITED STATES. 
(Innusrratep By WateR-coLour SKETCHES AND THE Lanrern). 
By Mr. JAMES KAY, J.P. 10th January, 1905. 
The President, Mr. W. Lewis Grant, wished all present and all 
the members a Happy New Year. He made bold to say that the 
evidences with regard to trade and commerce were such as to 
enable them to entertain the strong hope that they were entering 
on a prosperous year. 
Was it not also their desire that peace, the unspeakable 
blessings of peace, should prevail among the nations, and that 
the terrible and devastating war now being waged in the far Hast 
should be brought to an end. 
In introducing Mr. Kay, the President said that Mr. Kay had 
many claims upon the gratitude of members, and not the least of 
them was the service which he rendered as Treasurer for the long 
period of twenty years. He would draw their attention to the 
Dominion of Canada, with its enormous extent, its rapidly grow- 
ing importance, its people of abounding loyalty. Mr. Kay had 
crossed the frontier, so that he would tell us something of the 
United States—that remarkable country with which it was the 
fashion at present to endeavour to be on the very best of terms. 
He had travelled with the experience of the business man as well 
as the eye of the artist, and they would therefore look for an 
entertaining and informing lecture. 
Mr. Kay said: I propose to give a rapid review of a recent visit 
to Canada and the United States of America during August, 
September and October, of 1904. 
When practical, I like a circular tour; so on this journey we 
took the best route, out by the North of Ireland, Labrador and 
Quebec, and back by New York and the South of Ireland. 
We enter Canada by that most magnificent river, the St. 
Lawrence, and are introduced right away to the most beautiful, 
and certainly the most historical portions of North America. 
