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L—Some Memories of Dundurn and Burlington Heights. 
By Str Joun G. Bourtinot, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Lit.D. (Laval). 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
The following paper is substantially an address delivered at the open- 
ing of Dundurn Park, in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, on the Queen’s 
Birthday, 1900, and is now printed by permission of the Printing Com- 
mittee in the present volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society, 
with the additions of several portraits, illustrations, and notes, which 
give greater value and interest to this brief review of the history of a 
district replete with many memories of the Past of Canada. 
MEMORIES OF DUNDURN AND BURLINGTON HEIGHTS. 
As I stand on this historic ground, so deeply interesting to the 
student for its many memories, and so pleasing to the eye for its varied 
scene of mountain, grove and bay, I recall a phrase long famous in the 
annals of this district, and address you once more as “ Men and Women 
of Gore? It is a phrase associated for many decades with evidences of 
unswerving devotion to the Crown, and never more so than at this 
memorable time when the sons of Gore are contending on the battle- 
fields of South Africa for the security and unity of that mighty Empire 
to which the people of Canada have ever been true. It was a happy 
thought on the part of the energetic mayor and civic authorities of Ham- 
ilton to defer the opening of this park until the Queen’s birthday, the 
true Empire day, the great holiday of all Canadians, irrespective of race 
and creed. This is the day, above all others, when we can best recall 
the memories of the loyal men who have made the old district of Gore 
famous in the annals of the Dominion. This, too, is the place where, 
above all others, I can most fittingly call wpon you, men and women of 
Gore, to forget for a few moments the Present, with its absorbing in- 
terests and pleasures, and look with me down the “corridors of time” 
* As I summon from the shadowy Past 
The forms that once have been.” 
The various human forces that have exercised such potent influence 
on the development of Canada have at one time and another met on this 
historic height, or by the side of the beauteous bay below. ‘The ex- 
plorer, the missionary, the trader, the coureur-de-bois, the settler, the 
