APPENDIX B. XI 
Officers, 1900-1901: 
President—Hon. Justice Baby. 
Vice-Presidents—Rouer Roy, K.C.; Judge Sicotte, Dr. Louis 
Laberge, H. J. Tiffin, W. D. Lighthall, Dr. F. W. Campbell. 
Treasurer—George Durnford. 
Recording Secretary—C. A. Harwood. 
Corresponding Secretary—J. A. U. Beaudry. 
Curator of Museum—R. W. McLachlan. 
Librarian—G. Desaulniers. 
Council—S. M. Baylis, P. O. Tremblay, H. J. Ross, Conte de la 
Barthe, J. S. Brierly, Ludger Larose, James Reid, G. Langlois, 
Emmanuel Ohlën.  ~ 
In concluding, the hope is cherished that the aims and objects of 
our Society may be more widely known and further advanced. Our 
work is neither local, nor provincial, but distinctly national, in seeking 
to gather and conserve mementos illustrative of the history of our 
country and the life of its people in their religious, political and 
commercial development, and our souvenirs cover, if yet sparsely the 
broad field beginning with pre-historic Indian remains, and passing 
down to the last coin struck for our Canadian coinage. 
Respecting the story of the early settlement and growth of the 
country, Parkman aptly questions: “Is this true history, or a romance 
of Christian chivalry?” and answers himself, “It is both!” and we 
desire to gather anything and everything illustrative and commemora- 
tive of this characterization, in the truth of which we fully concur. 
The great historian has for ever linked his name with “A Century of 
Conflict,” but there is also a century comprised in the latter half of 
the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth, which may, perhaps, 
be fitly termed a Century of Reconciliation and Re-adjustment, and we 
desire that this formative period should be fully and fittingly com- 
memorated within our walls. 
There are personal relics, arms, and portraits of the brave men 
who first fought one another for supremacy, and then as bravely stood 
shoulder to shoulder to repel the invader of their common country; 
there are books and documents relating to the able and far-seeing 
statesmen who guided the country’s uncertain political fortunes 
through early storm and stress to the full and free enjoyment of the 
equality we enjoy to-day; there are records and edicts of the Church 
Universal working for the spiritual betterment of a diversified flock, 
and looking forward to the day when “all shall be one”; there are old 
landscapes, pictures of buildings now fast disappearing, maps, family 
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