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for many years so conspicuous a feature of the Canadian West. A copy 
of this diary has been handed us for publication by the descendants of 
Mr. Garry, one of whom has added a number of useful notes. It 
contains a portrait of the author, and other illustrations of interest. 
We hope that the Society will be able from time to time to publish 
similar documents bearing on the history of Canada in the past. We 
invite all persons, who are in possession of such papers, to send them to 
the Honorary Secretary, who will give them full consideration and 
publish them whenever they are found useful to historical students. 
Every person who sends to the Society such contributions as it can use 
profitably will receive an adequate number of pamphlets for his own 
purposes. The large circulation of the Transactions in all important 
libraries and historical societies throughout the world brings all historical 
documents within the reach of all persons who are likely to be interested 
in them. 
13. CANADIAN ARCHIVES. 
The report on Canadian Archives for 1900 contains a note A, a 
continuation of the report on the provision for education in the Canadas, 
including detailed lists of the schools in Lower Canada, with the names 
of the teachers and their salaries, and in note B, information on the 
subject of emigration arriving at the port of Quebec. 
In the preliminary report is an account of the early days of the 
lumber trade on the Ottawa, with copy of the letters from Lord 
Dalhousie, in which he informs Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant- 
Governor of Upper Canada, that he had authorized the first expenditure 
for the transit of lumber over the falls of the Chats and Chaudiere, at 
a time when there was evidently no idea of the extent to which the 
lumber trade would attain. 
In addition to a variety of subjects treated of in the preliminary 
report, is an account of the outbreak and ravages of cholera in 1832, 
which snows the panic caused by this disease and the hardships to 
which many were exposed by its means. 
The usual calendars for Upper and Lower Canada are given, the 
usefulness of which is best known to historical investigators. 
The volumes for Lower and Upper Canada contain correspondence 
between Viger acting for Papineau, and W. L. Mackenzie, previous to 
the rebellion in the two provinces. 
