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M. Renault was besides recommended for a grant of 1,200 acres and 
M. Séjéant for a grant of 500 acres. 
So far as can be ascertained one family only, that of M. Quetton de 
St. George, is now represented in western Canada. 
The report for this year mentions among the acquisitions to the 
archives, the volumes presented by the right honourable, the master of 
the rolls in England, the papers of Dr. John Rolph, bearing on the 
rebellion in Upper Canada in 1837-8; also the letters of Mr. Robert 
Baldwin, Sir Francis Hincks, David Gibson, William Lyon Mackenzie, 
likewise original documents and copies received from Detroit, Cornwall. 
Windsor, Sandwich, respecting the early occupation of those districts, 
We are also informed that copies are being made in Rome of documents, 
till then inaccessible, Archbishop Taschereau having, by the good offices 
of the historian of Montcalm and Levis, Abbé H. R. Casgrain, undertaken 
to have them transcribed from the archives of the Gesu and the Propa- 
ganda in Rome—a veritable windfall for historical investigators. A 
curious letter is also given from Charles I. to Sir Isaac Wake, ambassador 
to France, respecting the rendition of Quebec and Acadia, dated 12th 
June, 1631. 
1885.—Through the researches of Messrs. Brymner and Marmette in 
London and Paris, important additions were made to our archives this 
year—documents relating to events preceding or immediately succeeding 
the establishment of civil government. We note the first murmurs of dis- 
content in the New England colonies; the conduct of the Canadians, 
both the old and the new subjects, during the war of the revolution ; the 
difficulties which beset Carleton in his government ; the bitter hostility of 
Lord Germaine to the “ Saviour of Canada”; the conduct of the war, 
including Burgoyne’s operations ; the re-establishment of peace ; Colonel 
Moore’s (R.E.) report in 1784; the boundary discussion between Nova 
Scotia and the easternmost of the United States; Colonel Gother Mann’s 
observations thereon ; the notorious career and perfidious machinations 
of Pierre Antoine Roubaud in Canada and in England ; the alleged fabri- 
cation by the latter of Montcalm’s prophetic letter of 24th August, 1759; 
Francis Parkman’s opinion of this clever rascal; Du Calvet’s connection 
with Roubaud. (p. xili., 1885.) Another valuable source of information 
is described in the Actes de Foye et Hommage, the fealty rolls, 1667-68-74, 
setting forth the origin of the old Seigniories, ke. 
1886.—The report, calendar and appendix of the archivist and his 
assistant, Mr. Marmette, for 1886, embraces 850 pages. It opens with the 
proposal of Samuel Waldo for the reduction of Louisbourg in 1758, 
followed by his plan for settling Nova Scotia. 
Mr. Marmette, from Paris, mentions the continuation of his labours, 
in transcribing documents relating to the history of Canada and Acadia 
in the ‘ Archives Coloniales,” as well as those which the late Mr. George 
