448 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Membership. 228 active (entrance fee, $i ; annual dues, $i ; life composition, $25) ; 

 18 ex officio ; 7 honorary ; 7 corresponding. Any local historical organization in 

 Ontario may be admitted to affiliation with the society by resolution of the Coun- 

 cil; and every affiliated society may be represented by not more than 3 delegates. 



Publications. 



Annual report . . . 1891-1905/06. Toronto, 1891-1906. 8. 



Reports for 1898 and 1899 also pub. in i vol. with the report of the com- 

 mittee on reorganization, Mar. 1898, and Constitution and by-laws of the 

 reorganized society. 



Include reports from the affiliated societies (v. infra.}. 



PAPERS AND RECORDS, v. I-VII. Toronto, 1899-1906. 8. 



Price: $i per vol. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the Secretary. 



AFFILIATED SOCIETIES." 



BELLEVILLE AND BAY OF QUINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Belleville, Ont. Secretary: S. 

 Russell. Founded 1893. 16 members. No publications. 



BOWMANVILLE WOMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Bowmanville, Ont. Secretary : Miss 

 Margaret E. P. Bogue. Founded 1902. Meetings fortnightly (14 a year). 24 

 members. No publications. 



BRUCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Walkerton, Ont. Secretary: Norman Robert- 

 son. Founded Sept. 16, 1901. Annual meeting on 4th Tuesday of Jan. 21 mem- 

 bers (annual dues, 2Sc.) Publ.: The history of the County of Bruce and of the 

 minor municipalities therein, by N. Robertson. Toronto, 1906. 



COUNTY OF VICTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Lindsay, Ont. Secretary: Miss E. G. 

 Flavelle. 30 members. Occupies a room in the Public Library building. No 

 publications. 



ELGIN HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE. St. Thomas, Ont. Secretary: Frank 

 Hunt. Founded 1891, for the collection and preservation of specimens of 

 the flora and fauna of the district, and scientific and historical investigation 

 in general. 180 members. Publ: Historical sketches of the county of Elgin. 

 St. Thomas, Ont., 1895. 8. The Courthouses of a century. By K. W. McKay. 

 1902. 



WOMEN'S AUXILIARY. (Women's Elgin Historical Society.) Secretary- 



Treasurer: Mrs. R. H. McConnell. Founded in 1901. Monthly meetings, Oct. to 



Apr. 100 members (limited to that number). Papers read at meetings published 



in local newspapers. 



ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Windsor, Ont. Secretary: A. J. E. Belleperche. 



Organized Jan. 19, 1904. Monthly meetings. 91 members (annual dues. SOG. for 



men, 25c. for women). No publications. 



FRONTENAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Kingston, Ont. Secretary : A. A. Chown. 



The following societies are reported as inactive at present: Cobourg and County 

 of Northumberland Historical Society, Cobourg ; Kingston Historical Society, Kingston 

 (f. 1893) ; Oxford Historical Society, Woodstock (f. 1897) ; Peel Pioneer and His- 

 torical Society, Brampton (f. 1887). 



The Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve _are entitled under the constitution 

 of the society to representation as an affiliated society. 



