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BIBLIOGEAPHY OF THE 



Boiii'iiiot, John George.— Continued. 



The Constitution of Canada, pp. 7. 



Baedelccr'n Dominion of Conitia: a Handbook /or 

 Travellers, Leipsic, 1894. 



Bovey, Henry T. 



Crib Work in Canada. 



Proceedings of Institute Civil Engineers (Eng.). No. 

 1730, 1880. 



Applied Mechanics. Two parts. Montreal : .J. 

 Lovell & Son, 1882. 



Domy.Svo., PI), 186-150. 



An Investigation as to the Ma.xinium Bending 

 Moments at the Points of Support of Continuous 

 Girders of n Spans. 



Transaelions Hoiial Society of Canada. Vul. v.. See. 

 3, 1S37. 



Tlie Maximum Shear and Bending Moment pro- 

 duced by a Live Load at different points of 

 Horizontal Girder AB of span 1. 

 /(;r(i.,Vol.Tn.,Sec. 3, 1889. 

 The Flexure of Columns. 



Ihid , Vol. X., Sec- 3, 1892. 

 Theory of Structures and Strength of Materials. 

 Xew York : .J. Wiley & Sons, 1893. 

 8vo.,pp. 831. 



Hydraulic Motors. Montreal: J. Lovell & Son, 

 1893. 



Results of Experiments on Transverse Sti-ength 

 of Canadian White Pine. 



Transictions of Canadian Societi/ Civil Engineers, 

 Montreal. 1893. 



Bi-yinner, Douglas. 



A large part of his work was editorial, and there- 

 fore anonymous. In 1872, he was selected to 

 organize a branch of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Arts and Statistics at Ottawa, for the 

 collection and arrangement of the Archives of 

 Canada. For the first nine years, the work of 

 arrangement was carried on so as to have the 

 material which liad been collected put in such 

 a condition as would render the works of refer- 

 ence easily accessible to investigators. Re- 

 ports on the progress of the work can be seen in 

 the Reports of the Department of Agricidture 

 for 1872 (No. 29) ; for 1873 (No. 24). The report 

 for 1874 has also one from the Abbé Verreau 

 (see under proper head in this bibliography). 



T/ieJir^t separate report on Canadian Archives -was 

 published in 1882, being an ancoiint of the proceedings 

 of the previous year (1881). That report was of a gen- 

 eral nature, as it included an account of the system 

 of keeping the public records. It contains a sketch of 

 the origin of the present Public Record offices in Lon- 

 don and Edinburgh, and a catalogue of the manu- 

 scripts in the British Museum relating to Canada. It 

 was regarded as of so much value, that the whole 

 report wns published in that of the Public Kecord 

 Office, London, for 188'J. 



The report for 1882 (publi-shed in 188S) gives det.nils of 

 the work in the branch, a table of the divisions of the 

 Dominion of Canada, commercial tables, and speci- 

 mens of the system adopted for calendaring the docu- 

 ments. 



Bryniner, Douglas. — Continued. 



The report for 1883 contains synopses of papers in the 

 Public Record Office, London, relating to Canada, and 

 the same by Mr. Marmotte of papers in the State De- 

 partments, Paris; letters on the state of Canada in 

 1835, by T. Fred. Elliot, secretary of the Gosford com- 

 mission, and by Hon. A. N. Morin in 1811, in antici- 

 pation of the first meeting of the Legislature of United 

 Canada; also, "Transactions relating to Hudson's 

 Bay in 1687." 



For 1884, thepnliminarij report contains a sketch of 

 the capture of Quebec by Kirk in 1629, and its restor- 

 ation by Charles I. to France in 1631. A very interest- 

 ing letter written in 1631 by Charles to Wake, the 

 ambassador to France, unearthed by Dr. Brymner in 

 the British Museum, was published in this report, 

 clearing up an obscure historical point. A manuscript 

 account, written in 1678, of the martyrdom of Fathers 

 Brebccuf and L'Allemant is printed in this report, 

 with a translation into English. In the description of 

 Nova Scotia by Lieut.-Col. Morse, in his report dated 

 in 1784, is the first proposal for confederation of the 

 Provinces, the place suggested by Col. Morse for the 

 metropolis being Cape Breton An abstract of the 

 " Fealty Uolls " of Lower Canada has proved of great 

 value to inquirers respecting the first gr,ants and suc- 

 cessions to the seigniories in that Province. The 

 calendar of the Haldimand collection wa* begun in 

 this volume. 



In 1885, th'' si/nopsis of 2)ai)ers in the departments at 

 Paris, the abstract of the fealty rolls and the calendar 

 of the Haldim.ind collection were continued- In the 

 preliminary report a sketch is given of the events, so 

 far as they affected Canada, of the American Revolu- 

 tionary War, and a hiatus supplied in the letter writ- 

 ten by Lord George Germain to Sir Guy Carleton, 

 which, it seems probable, led to the resignation of the 

 latter. The correspondence is given in full in a note 

 tmarked D) to the report. A careful outline of the 

 life of an ex-Jesuit named Roubaud 'S of interest to 

 the investigators of Canadian history. 



In 1886 the report on French Archives and the calendar 

 of the Haldhnand collection are continued. The pre- 

 liminary report gives an account of the capture of 

 Louisbourg in 1745, with chart of Gabarus Bay and 

 plan of Louisbourg, showing the position of the fort, 

 etc. ; note A giving the proposal of Samuel Waldo 

 for its reduction in 1758. The journal of Legardeur 

 St. Pierre in 1750 to 1752, with Sir Guy Carleton's re- 

 marks OQ Western trade (notes C and D), and the 

 letter-book of Miles Macdonell, reporting his pro- 

 c.edngswith the emigrants taken at the expense of 

 Lord Selkirk to settle Rupert's Land, give a view of 

 different parts of the Canadian North-West at differ- 

 ent periods. The history of the construction of the 

 first canals on the St. Lawrence in 1780 and 1781, and 

 the discovery that a canal was in existence on the 

 Canadian side of the Sault Ste. Marie from 17 '7 and 

 a few years onwards, are of interest to engineers. 

 The visit of Capt. Enys to Niagara in 1787, the journal 

 of which is published in full, has been regarded by 

 geologists as of considerable importance. 



/Vl 1887, the Report on trench Arch ires and the cal- 

 endar of the Haldimand papers were continued. In 

 the preliminiiry report is the sketch of the life of 

 General Haldimand, who became (governor of Canada 

 in succession to Sir Guy Carleton and who continued in 

 command till the close of the Revolutionary war. A 

 letter fiom M.Tremblay, agent for the Seminary of 

 (Juebec, dated in 1095, published in full with a transla- 

 tion, affords reason for a sketch of the ecclesiastical 

 affairs of that Province during the incumbency of the 

 fi'St Bishops, Mgr. de Laval and Mgr. St. Valliùre. 

 The account of the capture of Fort Shelby, at Prairie 



