PROCEEDINGS FOR 1S97 



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from the shores, first seen by Cabot and English sailors four hundred 



years before, to the far Pacific coast. 



C. O'Brien, D.D., Près. E.S.C., K. E. the Earl op Aberdeen, 



(Archbishop of Halifax). Governor-General of Canada. 



J. G. BouRiNOT, C.M.G., His Honour M. B. Daly, 



Hon. Sec. E.S.C. Lieut.-Governor of Nova Scotia. 



Bristol Delegates : W. H. Da vies, Esq., J. P. ; W. E. Barker, Esq., J.P. 



BRISTOL MONUMENT. 



The city of Bristol, with commendable enterprise, is erecting a 

 stately monument in Cabot's honour on Brandon Hill, which recalls the 

 mysterious island which ever eluded the search of the adventurous sea- 

 men of the old historic'port in the fifteenth century. 



