X ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



An invitation was then read from the Maine Historical Society and 

 the Committee of Citizens of the St. Croix Valley, requesting the Eoyal 

 Society to attend a celebration to be held on Saturday, June 25, to 

 commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of de Monts' and Cham- 

 plain's settlement on Dochet Island on the St. Croix Eiver. 



The Secretary also read an invitation to the Society, from His 

 Worship the Mayor, to a luncheon at the Union Club, on Wednesday, 

 June 22. 



The meeting adjourned and the sections met for organization. 



EVENING SESSION (Tuesday, June 21). 



The President, Lt.-Col. G. T. Denison, delivered hig Presidential 

 Address at 8 p.m., in the Convocation Hall of the High School. 



Subject: — The United Empire Loyalists and their influence upon 

 ihe history of this country. 



For Address see Appendix A. 



After which the Fellows and Delegates attended a reception given 

 by Mrs. J. V. Ellis. 



SESSION II. (Wednesday, June 22). 



The Society met at 11.30 a.m. in the Convocation Hall, when the 

 Delegates of Associated Societies were called upon for their resipective 

 reports. The following were read or presented. (The reports of these 

 Societies are printed together as Appendix D.) 



The report of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, 

 read by Hon. Judge Sicotte. 



Eeport of the Miramichi Natural History Association, presented 

 by Mr. J. L. Stewart. 



Eeport of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto, 

 sent in by Miss Agnes Fitz-Gibbon, who was unable, because of illness, 

 to attend. 



Eeport of the Natural History Society of Montreal, sent in by 

 Eev. Eobert Campbell. 



Eeport of the Niagara Historical Society, sent in by the President, 

 Miss Janet Carnochan. 



Eeport of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, presented by Dr. 

 James Fletcher. 



Eeport of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, 

 presented by Mrs. S. E. Dawson. 



