CXXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Recording Secretary—J. F. Ballard. 
Treasurer—P. L. Scriven. 
Curator—Col. C. C. Grant. 
Assistant Curator—J. M. Williams. 
Auditors—E. H. Darling, Sinclair G. Richardson. 
Council—Wm. Acheson, Robert Campbell, A. H. Baker, Rev. Canon 
Henderson, Walter E. Hill. 
XXI.—From The Champlain Society, through Mr. B. E. WALKER 
Report of the first annual meeting held in the board room of the 
Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto, on Thursday, 10th May, 1906. 
Present. 
Provisional Officers—President, B. E. Walker, D.C.L.; Secretary, 
Prof. George M. Wrong, M.A.; Treasurer, James Bain, D.C.L. 
Members—J. S. Willison, F. G. Jemmett, A. C. Casselman, T. 
Langton, M.A., LL.B., K.C.; Prof. A. H. Young, M.A.; W. G. Eakins, 
M.A.; Prof. J. Squair, B.A.; Prof. AR) Lang M.A; Prot’ Eelham 
Edgar, Ph.D.; Prof. A. R. Bain, M.A., LL.D.; Prof. G. H. Needler, 
B.A., Ph.D.; C. K. Clarke, M.D.; A. St. L. Trigge, Miss Eleanor 
Creighton, all of Toronto. A. F. Hunter, M.A., Barrie; J. D. Barnett, 
Stratford Station; W. 8. Dingman, Stratford; A. D. Bruce, Gormley; 
Judge Sicotte, Montreal; F. R. Heaton, Montreal. 
The meeting opened with the following remarks by Mr. Walker: 
In the spring of 1905, in conversation with some university men 
interested in history, the suggestion was made that the time had per- 
haps come in Canada when we might hope to have a society‘ for the 
publication of historical works, similar to the Navy Records Society, 
the Royal Historical Society, the Prince Society, ete. This, of course, 
would depend on whether there were in Canada a sufficiently strong 
sentiment in favour of work similar to that which had been accom- 
plished successfully in countries more thickly populated and wealthier 
than Canada. I had confidence enough personally to think that 250 
people could be found who would be willing to pay $10 a year if we 
could promise that we would produce works equal in every respect in 
editing, historical interest and mechanical make-up to the best publica- 
tions of historical societies elsewhere. I was determined, as were those 
associated with me, that we should work only upon these lines. This, 
of course, involves our being able to pay for editing, as we could not 
expect to secure gratuitously and continuously the high class of editorial 
skill that we desire. 

