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B. Aikins. That gentleman had the volume published in 1869, con- 
taining : ' 
1. Documents relating to the Acadian French inhabitants and their 
removal from Nova Scotia in 1755. 
On the encroachments of the French authorities of Canada on the 
territories of Nova Scotia. 
3. On the siege of Fort Beauséjour in 1755 and the war on the 
continent terminated by the cession of Canada. 
4. Papers connected with the settlement of Halifax in 1749 and the 
first British colonization of the province. 
5. The official correspondence preparatory to the establishment of a 
representative form of government in 1758. 
The records in possession of the military authorities at Halifax are 
voluminous. The earliest date is 1779, and they are continued to the 
present day. ‘“ General Sir Hastings Doyle,” says Mr. Brymner, “ gave 
instructions that I should have access to the papers, and Major Robertson, 
military secretary, saw that every facility was afforded to me to have 
them examined.’ On permission being subsequently asked from the 
imperial government to have this valuable collection of documents removed 
to Ottawa, it was granted. 
Mr. Brymner’s visit to St. John, N.B., in quest of old documents was 
not so successful. 
His mission to Quebec, to wit, to examine the documents of the Quebec 
seminary, proved satisfactory. Mr. Brymner closes his report for 1872, 
with an expression of thanks to Rev. Messire Tanguay, in charge of the 
records, and also to the Rev. Abbé Laverdiére, librarian of Laval Univer- 
sity, for the facilities afforded the archivist in his laborious quest. 
1874.—The report of the Rev. Mr. Verreau, deputed to London and 
Paris in 1874, throws much valuable light on documents relating to 
Canadian history stored in European cities. This gentleman dived into the 
records of the British museum, examined the Seignier collection, Harleian 
manuscripts, the voluminous Haldimand collection, manuscripts of George 
III, English state archives, the Quebec correspondence comprised in 
twelve volumes, containing a mass of curious and unpublished details, 
bo 
some bearing on Montcalm’s last letters and on the chequered career of 
the notorious ex-Jesuit, Pierre Roubaud, in Canada and in England ; the 
valuable collection of fifty-six volumes, entitled “ Dorchester Papers.” 
They had been presented by Mr. M. Morgan Castelow, secretary to Mr. 
John Seymour, who bequeathed them to the Royal Institution in 1804. 
Mr. Verreau then crossed over to France, visiting the extensive 
archives of Lille. At Brussels, he found at the “ Archives du Royaume,” 
a volume entitled “ Missions d'Amérique,” containing several autograph 
letters, one on Canada; searching successfully for material, at the ‘ Bib- 
liothéque Royale,” etc., there also he picked up precious information 
