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Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s greatest Prime Minister was here — in Kingston — on this date in 1898 to receive an Honourary Degree from Queen’s and address students and the wider community. In fact, demand was so high to hear from Laurier, that the great man delivered not one, but two, speeches at Kingston City Hall during his visit.
May I be permitted to remind you that last year it was my privilege to be in England upon an important occasion – an occasion which, I see, has not been forgotten yet, and nay, shall never be forgotten throughout the length and breadth of the British Empire. On that occasion it was my privilege, not so much in a personal degree, but my privilege as the Premier of the Dominion of Canada, along with my brother Premiers of the other colonies of the Empire, to receive the degree of LL.D.
If I come to a young university like Queen’s or Toronto or Laval or Dartmouth, the impression is the same in one way, but different in another. We have not to look to the past: these universities of which I have been speaking are steeped in the past, we but we look to the future. We have no treasure of art to exhibit, but we may be tempted to say, like the Roman matron when she was showing her children, “these are our treasures.” Here is the hope of our country.
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