CVI ROYAL SOCIE'IY OF CANADA 



the collection of historical material will fonii 'an exhibition which can- 

 not but be of great value in arousing a patriotic and appreciative interest 

 in Canadian history. 



XVI. — From The New Brunswick Historical Society, through 

 Mr. S. D. Scott, 



The society which I have the honour to represent is now twenty 

 years of age, and at no time since it was founded have its members shown 

 more earnestness and industry in the work of research than during the 

 last three or four years. The contributing members number fifty-two, 

 and the honorary or corresponding members, who live at a distance from 

 the place of meeting, number twenty-one. During the last year monthly 

 meetings have been held except during midsummer, and at nearly every 

 meeting one or more papers have been read. A grant of $135 a year 

 from the Provincial Government has been of assistance in pro^^ding for 

 the publication of the collections. The volume issued this year, the 

 fourth of the present series, is a book of 134 pages, containing six papers. 

 These are : — 



"The Journal of Captain Wm. Owen, E.N., during his residence on 

 Campobello, 1770-71," edited by Prof. Ganong, of Smith's College, 

 Massachusetts. This is the second paper on the subject. 



" Census Eeturn of the Town of Conway in 1775." 



" Census Eeturn of Settlement at St. John in 1775." 



"The James White Papers: A Eecord of Social, Mercantile and 

 Political Life on the St. John Eiver before the Loyalists' Lnmigration," 

 by Eev. W. 0. Eayinond. 



" The Pennfield Eecords: An Account of a Quaker Settlement estab- 

 lished in 1783 in New Brunswick and subsequently abandoned," edited 

 by J. Vroom, of St. Stephen. 



"The North Shore: A Eecord of events on the Miramichi and other 

 Settlements on the Gulf Coast," compiled by Eev. W. 0. Eaymoud, from 

 the journal of Captain Marston and other sources. 



In addition to these j^apers there were contributions from Leonard 

 Allison on the early history of King's County, from Mr. Eaymoud, ^Ir. 

 W. K. Eeynolds and others. 



Some of the papers read before this society have been published in 

 the Neiv Brunswick Maijazine, a periodical which deals with matters of 

 local history, and is edited by AV. K. Eeynolds. 



Much attention has been paid by the society to the records of the 

 Loyalist founders of the city of St. John. The interest in this study was 



