Excerpt from Canada's Metals: A Lecture Delivered at the Toronto Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, August 20, 1897

IN one sense Canada's metals do not differ from those of any other country, but in relation to our empire as a whole, the metals of the Dominion occupy a very distinct position. The title of this address was, therefore, chosen because the strength of a nation depends, in no small measure, on its metals, and it may be hoped that in the near future the mother country will turn to Canada, her eldest daughter, and the one who is nearest home, for the supply of those products of the metallurgic art upon which the material welfare and industrial progress of the empire must depend. Quite apart from im perial questions, it would be well to choose metals as the subject of this lecture, for, since the British Association met in Canada in 1884, the ancient love of the study of metals has revived, and they are now regarded with almost as much respectful admira tion as they were in the middle ages.

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