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Lt.-Col. A. E. Belcher, Lt.-Col. G. A. Shaw, Mrs. Norman 

 Allen, Mrs. R. Stearns Hicks, Mrs. Edmund Phillips. 



Investigating Committee — Lt. -Colonel Macqueen, Miss Helen 

 Merrill, Mr. E. A. MacLaurin. 



Publishing Committee — The President, the Secretary, the Treas- 

 urer. 



Ladies' Committee — Mrs. R. A. Pyne, Mrs. G. A. Shaw, Mrs. 

 A. S. Foster, Mrs. Forsyth Grant, Miss Laura Clarke, 

 Miss Dickson, Mrs. Hamilton Burns, Mrs. Brereton, Miss 

 Kate Beemer, Mrs. Hirschfelder, Mrs. R. W. Hicks, Mrs. 

 Allen Johnson. 



XI. — Report of the Huron Institute. 

 Presented by David Williams, Secretary. 



To review the past twelve months in the work of the Huron 

 Institute without a reference to the continental war across the sea, 

 would leave this report incomplete. Obviously the Institute has been, 

 in common with almost everything else, seriously affected, attention 

 having been diverted from the work it has been customary for it to do, 

 to the greater things of the Empire. Collingwood people have, since 

 the outbreak of hostilities, been earnestly and actively engaged in 

 providing for the brave and noble sons who are on the firing line. 

 During the fall and winter a series of lectures on the war was conducted, 

 while other patriotic gatherings were held from time to time, the 

 subject of these being of such paramount importance as to overshadow 

 aught else, thus leaving no place wherein our Institute might appear 

 by the way of public meetings. Instead of writing and reading his- 

 tory, the people were making history. 



Because of the crowding out, as it were, this Institute has no 

 word of disapproval; but instead adds its pean of praise to those 

 who have with such unanimity united to render a national service. 

 With the Institute, however, the past year has not been lost. Since 

 the last annual meeting considerable work has been done that is of 

 value. Probably the outstanding accomplishment is the publication 

 of Volume II, Papers and Records. This is a book of one hundred 

 and seventy pages, and is in a large sense an "Old Boys' " volume, 

 containing as it does over 300 pictures of CoUingwood's sons, scattered 

 the world over. Each picture is accompanied by a brief sketch, 

 thus recording through these autobiographies much of the early 

 history of Collingwood. The volume also contains several papers 

 dealing directly with the origin and progress of CollingA\^ood, and 



