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Official Opening of Memorial Tower, August 14, 1912
Speech by Sir Sandford Fleming
North West Arm, Halifax, N. 5., August 14th, 1912.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, His Worship the Mayor,
and City Council of Halifax: With genuine satisfaction I now transfer to His Worship the Mayor the title deeds of a park of 100 acres including an ideal site for a Memorial Tower in the beautiful suburbs of the City of Halifax. Four years ago I advocated as strongly as I was able, the erection of a tower to commemorate the first meeting of an Elective Assembly in Nova Scotia in 1758
that event being, in fact, the planting of the germs of parliamentary rule in the Overseas Dominions of the Empire.
With much public spirit and true patriotism the Canadian Club of Halifax has erected such a tower; the memorial edifice
is enriched by many contributions from the oversea Dominions and thus it stands unique among
National and Imperial monuments. It is to the Canadian Club of Halifax that the British people in both hemispheres
are indebted for the erection of this emblem of gratitude from the daughter nations to the Motherland.
SANDFORD FLEMING.
For copy of original deed, dated October 2nd, 1908, and other data, see printed Minutes of Council, September 23rd, 1909 pp 221-233.