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Dear Alastair,

I'm very pleased to be back in circulation, and shouldn't be working through my emails from the most recent, but yours caught my attention.

In March 2006, Jay Johnson covered some of your question for the Journal:

http://www.kiplingjournal.com/acrobat/KJ317.pdf

A search, using "Canadian Club" in inverted commas.gives a range of entries in the Journal, right back to July 1928.

JRK himself described the clubs:

“there is a crafty network of business men called Canadian Clubs. They catch people who look interesting, assemble their members during the mid-day lunch hour, and, tying their victim to a steak, bid him discourse on anything that he thinks he knows.” 

All the best,

John 





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On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:38 AM Alastair Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Can someone tell me the precise status of the various 'Canadian Clubs' which Kipling addressed during his travels in Canada in the fall of 1907, please?  He made six speeches to various Canadian Clubs in the major cities, but nowhere in any of his correspondence, nor in our NRG notes, does anyone explain who or what the Clubs were.  And a look on-line brings nothing but references to the whisky, or to the Canada Club which is something different.  I assume that the clubs were akin to the Rotary Club, or something similar, but I would like to know properly.

Alastair Wilson


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