CXLIV THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



President — Milton L. Mersey, M.Sc, LL.D. 

 Vice-Presidents— Frank D. Adams, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. 



Dr. Howard T. Barnes, F.R.S.C. 



J. S. Buchan, K.C., B.C.L. 



Rev. Robert Campbell, M.A., D.D. 



Miss Carrie M. Derick, M.A. 



J. C. Holden, F.R.G.S. 



J. as W. Pyke. 



Major G. W. Stephens. 



Miss Van Home. 

 Secretary — ^Alfred Griffin. 



Hon. Corresponding Secretary — F. W. Richards. 

 Hon. Treasurer — ^W. A. Stephenson. 

 Hon. Librarian — Harry Bragg, M.J.I. 

 Hon. Curator — Prof. Nevil Norton Evans. 

 Members of Council — J. A. U. Beaudry, C.E., Chairman. 



W. Drysdale. 



S. W. Ewing. 



Joseph Fortier. 



W. D'Oyley Hutchins. 



H. Lampard. 



G. S. J. Phillips. 



XVIII. — Report of the New Brunswick Historical Society. 



Presented by Ven. Archdeacon Raymond, F.R.S.C, delegate. 



This Society has now completed thirty years of active work. 

 From time to time it has assisted in the fitting commemoration of 

 notable anniversaries in the history of the maritime provinces. In 

 nearly every instance the movement has originated with our Society. 



Among the anniversaries so observed have been the following: — 

 The commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the landing 

 of the Loyalists at St. John in 1883. The centennial of the erection 

 of the first church in St. John in 1790. The tercentenary of the found- 

 ing of the first known European settlement in New Brunswick on 

 Caton's Island and the holding during the autumn of the same year 

 of the first recorded religious service for Europeans by Father Biard 

 held on this island in October, 1611. The placing of tablets to com- 

 memorate anniversaries or to point out historic sites of local impor- 

 tance has continued to occupy the attention of the Society. In all 

 its history probably no event has been so enthusiastically commemor- 

 ated as the tercentenary of the discovery of the port and river of 



