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Island, were transferred by the Militia Department to the Department of the 
Interior on the 4th November, 1876. 
‘3. The Dominion Government would appear to be in possession of all the 
ordnance lands in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton which have been transferred 
by the Imperial Authorities. 
“4. The site of the old fortifications at Louisbourg is not included in the 
list attached to the said order-in-council. 
“There is nothing to show that the site of these fortifications has ever 
been transferred to the Dominion Government. I may mention in connec- 
tion with this, that it is the practice of the Militia Department, whenever 
lands are not considered necessary for military purposes, to transfer them 
to the Department of the Interior, which Department disposes of them some- 
times by auction, or uses them for any purposes for which they may be 
required.” 
In view of the doubtful position of the site of the fortress of 
Louisbourg, the Council suggest.that it isa subject which will appro- 
priately fall within the purview of the Committee for the preservation 
of places of scenic and historic interest, which the Council have recom- 
mended to the favourable consideration of the Society. 
18. PLAINS oF ABRAHAM. 
The Council are glad to find that the purchase of the disposable 
property on the Plains of Abraham will.soon be completed, and that 
this historic ground will pass into the permanent possession of its true 
owners, the people of all nationalities in Canada. 
The Montgomery Memorial. 
Some indignation has again been aroused among Canadians by the 
report that the friends of Montgomery are still agitating for the erec- 
tion of a monument to that general in the Ancient Capital, amid whose 
rocks he fell on the first day of 1775. If this report be true, the 
Council can only repeat their expression of opposition to such a project, 
and their confidence that no such honour can ever be paid by any 
section of the Canadian people to the memory of a man who was false 
to his allegiance to England at a most critical period in her history, 
without the excuse of having been born and educated on American 
soil, and consequently influenced by the feelings of the Adamses, Wash- 
ington, Patrick Henry or other great native colonists. From infor- 
mation so far received, however, it is believed that a monument in the 
large sense is not in contemplation, but that permission has been 
asked of the Quebec City Council to place only a-simple metal tablet 
above the place where Montgomery fell. It is regrettable that Mont- 
gomery’s friends should persist in a request which excites so much 
