LY: ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Honorary Members :—Rey. Henry Scadding, D.D., Toronto; Rev. 
Canon Bull, M.A., Niagara Falls South; J. G. Hodgins, LL.D., Historio- 
grapher of Ontario, and Col. Ernest Cruikshank, Fort Erie. 
Corresponding Members:—General J. 8. Clarke, Auburn, N.Y., and 
Frank H. Severance, Esq., Buffalo, N.Y. 
The elected members number as already mentioned, 165. 
The officers for the year were :—President, James H. Coyne, B.A., 
St. Thomas ; Vice-President, C. C. James, M.A., Toronto ; David Boyle, 
Secretary, Toronto; Frank Yeigh, Treasurer, Toronto; Councillors, 
Rey. P. L. Spencer, M.A., Thorold; Miss M. A. Fitz-Gibbon, Toronto ; 
G. R. Pattullo, Woodstock; A. F. Hunter, M.A., Barrie, and J. J. 
Murphy, Toronto. 
The work of the society has been divided among several committees, 
viz :—Monuments and Tablets, Mrs. J. H. Thompson, convener; Flag 
and Commemoration, Mrs. C. Fessenden, Hamilton, convener, and the 
Archives and Publications, G. R. Pattullo, Woodstock, convener. 
In June, 1899, an exhibition of historical material was held in 
Victoria University buildings, Queen’s Park, Toronto. It was kept open 
for two weeks and attracted a large number of visitors, and was in every 
way eminently successful, mainly owing to the labours of the Women’s 
Canadian Historical Society of Toronto. 
A special effort was made during the year to collect sufficient money 
to mark in a befitting manner the last resting place of Laura Secord. 
This work is still on hand, but it is hoped that a large enough sum will 
soon be at the command of the society to place a good monument over 
the grave of the Heroine of Upper Canada. 
Action was taken respecting the bringing together of old registers 
of births, deaths and marriages in the hands of municipal officials, and 
the placing of such records for preservation in the keeping of the Deputy 
Registrar-General. 
In response to the circular letters sent out by this gentleman, Dr. P. 
H. Bryce, a considerable number of old district and county registers are 
now in his vaults. 
During the year, there was issued by the society, a small but com- 
prehensive volume by L. H. Tasker, M.A., on “The United Empire 
Loyalist of Long Point on Lake Erie.” 
Owing to unavoidable adverse circumstances, President Coyne has 
been unable to complete his work on the Journal of Galinée, but the 
work is now well forward, and will probably appear within a short time. 
All members of the society will be supplied with a copy, accompanying 
which is a large copy of the Galinée map. 
There is now in the hands of the Society a large quantity of valuable 
