CXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



" The men of the Sault-au-Matelot barricade are called ' Her old 

 " and new defenders/ because the different racial elements of both the 

 ■" old and new régimes were here * uniting ' for the first time in history, 

 " and thus ' guarding ' and ' saving ' the Canada of their own day and 

 '' of ours. Among them were Frenchmen, French-Canadians, English- 

 "men. Irishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen, Channel Islanders, Newfound- 

 '' landers, and those ' Eoyal Emigrants ' who were the forerunners of the 

 " U. E. Loyalists. And on this sacred spot each and all of these widely 

 " different ancestors of the present ' Canadians ' took their dangerous 

 " share of empire-building, in the very heart of a crisis which must then 

 *• have seemed to offer them no other reward than the desperate honour 

 " of leading the forlorn hope in a great cause all but lost for ever. 



" The complete history of this American invasion has never been 

 *•' written ; and so students on both sides of the line will be interested 

 '' in the news that the Literary and Historical Society intend to work 

 " out the whole subject in the most exhaustive manner possible. Every 

 " original document still remaining in manuscript, as well as those 

 '■ documents which have not yet appeared in perfectly exact versions, 

 '•'will be published word for word. Then after all authentic sources 

 "of information shall have been thoroughly explored, the Society will 

 '" try to give the ' plain unvarnished tale ' of the whole campaign with- 

 " out fear or favour." 



The promised volume will contain verbatim reprints of the follow- 

 ing: — '(1) Ainslic's Journal, and (2) that of an unknown diarist of the 

 siege of Quebec in 1775-6; (3)the " Orderly Book ' of the Militia during 

 the siege, and (4) the Eoster of the French Canadian Militia serving 

 in the city during that time. The typewritten copy of the Journal of 

 an Artillery Officer is also in hand for the next volume. 



In conclusion, we would respectfully beg to throw out a suggestion 

 for the formation of a Canadian Landmark Association, which we 

 thought of starting ourselves, but as the Royal Society of Canada is 

 representative of the whole Dominion, it is the best body to initiate such 

 a movement. We had thought of formulating the general idea of this 

 suggested Canadian Landmark Association in some such manner as 

 this : — 



Name. — The Canadian Landmark Associa,tion. 



Object. — To preserve memorials of great events and persons; to 

 mark historic sites by monuments or tablets; and, in general, to safe- 

 guard those landmarks of nature or man which ought to be kept as heir- 

 looms for posterity. 



Method. — " One for all, and all for one " ; by concentrating the 

 wide-spread general influence of all kindred Societies and individuals 



