KOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



XI. — From The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, 

 throutrli W. D. T.ioHTHALL, M.A. 



The society continues to make sound i)rogress in its various phases 

 of historical work. Its ordinary membership on the 20th December, 

 1898, was 340, and 13 new life governors had been added during the 

 year. In the course of the summer of 1898 the city of Montreal 

 granted it a twenty-five year lease of the Chateau de Kamczay in recog- 

 nition of the value of the museum to the city and country. 



A balance of debt of some $1200 has been paid ofT during the 

 year, over and above current expenses and ])urchascs, and a surplus is 

 now in the treasury. 



The Ladies' Branch has held many pleasant and instructive meet- 

 ings and is undertaking the furnishing in historical style of one end 

 of the building. The Antiquarian Journal Ams been issued quarterly. 



Among the many donations and acquisitions were originals of 

 Col. DeSalaljerry, his father and mother; Intendant Hocquart, Lord 

 i^Ietcalfe, and the Porlier series, including fine oil pictures of Sœur de 

 Youville, her sister, father, brother-in-law and two others of the same 

 period: Col. Gugy, Mde. du Barry; copies in oils of Iberville and Bien- 

 ville; i)hotographic copies of two pictures now in England reported to 

 be of rjcneral ^Montcalm and his wife; a handsome painting of Jacques 

 Cartier's Chateau of Liiuoilou: tlic five Indian skeletons recently un- 

 earthed at Wostmouut; a large donation of books by the French Govern- 

 ment to the library, and, many rare works, flags and engravings and 

 Indian antiquities. Among the lectures and papers read were the fol- 

 lowing : — 



Sir John Bourinot — " The l^oyalist Makers of Canada." 



Dr. Francis W. Campbell— " The War of 1812." 



Lucien Iluot — " Nos Visiteurs Américains au Château de Ramezay 

 en 1775— lîenedict Arnold." 



Hon. .Tudge Baby — " La Légende du Chien d'Or." 



W. 1). Liglitliall — "A New llochehigan Burying Ground." 



F. S. :\IacKay— "Notes on Col. F. S. MacKay, with original 

 documents." 



1{. W. McLachlan — " Notes on the Original Purchase of the Ciiateau 

 de Ramezay Site, 1703." 



Ou the lôth of Novemlx'r, a resolutinn was passed and published 

 protesting against the proposed sale of the Plains ot Abraham as build- 

 ing lots. • 



