LXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Members of Council. — C. T. Williams, Chairman; J. A. U. Beaudry, 

 C.E. ; J. S. Buchan, K.C., B.C.L. ; Joseph Fortier, John Harper, Edgar 

 Judge, H. McLaren, Alex. Eobortson, B.A. 



Superintendent. — Alfred Griffin. 



The Society owes not a little for its success to the activity, courtesy 

 and zeal of its superintendent, Mr. Alfred Griffin, and Mrs. Griffin. 



Y. — From The Niagara Historical Society, through 

 Miss Janet Carnochan. 



In respectfully placing our report before your honourable body, 

 we are glad to be able to report considerable work done. Our mem- 

 bership has increased, we having now seventy members, but the larger 

 half of these are non-resident. Monthly meetings were held from 

 October to IMay, and the following papers read: — " An Historic House, 

 the Court House and Jail, built 1818," by the President; "The In- 

 iluence of the U.E. Loyalists in the Growth of our Country," by Rev. 

 A. Sherk ; " Eef erences to Niagara in Early Books of Travel," by the 

 President. We have issued during the year another publication. No. 

 XL, " Eeminiscences of Niagara," which is meeting with much favour. 

 W^e have distributed over four hundred pamphlets during the year. 

 Considerable additions have been made to the collection in our Historical 

 lioom, and we have had many visitors. An historical item appears 

 at intervals in our local paper. 



At the annual meeting of the Ontario Historical Society at St. 

 Thomas last year a comnùttee was appointed, consisting of C. C. James, 

 M.A., President of the Ontario Historical Society; David Boyle, Secre- 

 tary of the saane; Col. G. Cruickshank, Jas. Wilson, Superintendent 

 Victoria Park, and Miss Camochan, the President of the Niagara His- 

 torical Society, to memorialize the Dominion Government with regard 

 to the condition of the historic spots here, but nothing has been heard 

 in answer. Our Society, however, spent some of its own funds in 

 repairing the remains of Navy Hall to prevent its collapse. 



But our principal work during the year has been in tlie direction 

 so much needed, of taking measures to provide better acco^mmodation 

 for our valuable collection, and here we feel that we have decidedly 

 taken, a step in advance. A public meeting was held on 17th Septem- 

 ber, our anniversary, in which several gentlemen from Toronto took 

 part — C. C. James, David Boyle, Rev. A. Sherk, A. W. Wright — besides 

 several in town — W. Kirby, the Mayor, etc. It had been determined 

 to first petition the Government and Municipalities, but we were 

 advised to see what we could do first ourselves, and then appeal to other 



