APPENDIX C XIX 
The officers for the session 1899-1900 are :— 
President—A. H. MacKay, Esq., LL.D., F.RS.C., F.R.M.S. 
Vice-Presidents—F. W. Doane, Esq., Harry 8. Poole, Esq., M.A., 
F.G.S. 
Treasurer—W. C. Silver, Esq. 
Corresponding Secretary—Professor J. G. MacGregor, Esq., D.Sc., 
F.R.S.C. and E. 
Recording Secretary—Harry Piers, Esq. 
Librarian—Maynard Bowman, Esq. 
Other Members of Council—Alexander McKay, Esq., E. Gilpin, 
Esq., LL.D., Martin Murphy, Esq., D.Sc., Wm. McKerron, Esq., Prof. 
E. MacKay, Ph.D., Watson L. Bishop, Esq., Roderick McColl, Esq. 
Auditors—Herbert E. Gates, Esq., and G. W. T. Irving, Esq. 
X.—From The Niagara Historical Society, through Miss CARNOCHAN. 
In presenting to your honourable Society a brief account of the 
work accomplished by us during the fourth year of our existence as a 
society, we feel it an honour to lay before a society so broad in its aims 
and far reaching in its influence, the report of our young society. 
During the year eight meetings were held, devoted chiefly to busi- 
ness, both pleasant and profitable. At one of these a paper was read 
written by Rev. Canon Bull, the respected President of the Lundy’s 
Lane Historical Society, on the Pioneer Missionaries in the Niagara 
Peninsula. 
Our historical room has been open once a week, sometimes oftener ; 
over three hundred visitors having recorded their names, and two hun- 
dred articles have been contributed during the year. Many letters have 
been received asking for information and frequently we have been able 
to answer inquiries from the documents in our possession. An histori- 
cal item appears frequently in our local paper, articles contributed being 
acknowledged. 
Three delegates attended the annual meeting of the Ontario Histori- 
cal Society, and we contributed over one hundred articles to the His- 
torical Loan Exhibit held in Toronto in June, filling two cases and the 
wall space above. 
Letters were sent to the Government asking for the preservation 
of different historic spots. On our anniversary, 17th September, we 
visited the different graveyards in the town, strewing flowers on the 
graves of many ; this year we visited in addition, the deserted Butler’s 
graveyard and we hope that this may become a yearly custom. 
