CLXVIII THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CAXADA 



On the lOtli of Muy, of this year, the Annual Luncheon was held 

 to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the landing of the Loyalists 

 at St. John, N.B. The principal speakers were Colonel Hugh Mac Lean, 

 M.P., the Bishop of Toronto and Dr. J. L. Hughes. 



The following officers and committees were elected: — 



President. — Colonel G. Sterling Ryerson, M.D. 



Vice-Presidents. — Lt.-Colonel G. A. Shaw; Colonel George T. Deni- 

 son; Lt.-Colonel Wm. Hamilton Merritt; Mr. R. S. Neville, K.C.; Mrs. 

 J. S. Dignam. 



Honorary Vice-Presidents (Distinguished descendants of United 

 Empire Loyalists) .—The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnwath; the 

 Right Honourable the Earl of Albemarle; Major General Charles Walker 

 Robinson, C.B.; Brigadier-General Charles Crutchley; Mrs. St. George 

 Littledale; Sir Frederick Borden; Right Honourable R. L. Borden, 

 Premier of Canada; Honourable G. H. V. Bulyea, Lieutenant-Governor 

 of Alberta; Honourable Sir Rodmond P. Roblin, K.C.M.G., Premier of 

 Manitoba; Chief (Ka-nen-kew-yah) Jacob Salem Johnson, Deputy 

 Speaker Six Nations Council; Chief (Annosorhkah) Samson Green, repre- 

 senting the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, Tyendinaga Reservation. 

 (Surviving sons and daughters of original United Empire Loyalists). — 

 Peregrine Otway Page, Ridgeway; Thomas C. Keefer, C.M.G., Rock- 

 cliffe, Ottawa; Alexander MaitlandSecord, Toronto; Mrs. J. Y. Cameron, 

 Toronto; Miss Seymour, Ottawa; Mrs. Mackellar, North Bay; Mrs. J. 

 Thorburn, Ottawa; Mrs. John Ridout, Toronto; Mrs. Ellen Sutherland, 

 Lancaster; Major-General Samuel Peters Jarvis, C.M.G., Weston-Super- 

 Mare, England; Major J. G. Beam, Elora; Miss Charlotte F. Leonard, 

 Toronto; Mrs. Perley, Port Dover; Mr. Harrington, Sydney, N.S. ; 

 Charles Stayner, Halifax, N.S. 



Honorary Secretary. — Miss Helen M. Merrill. 



Honorary Treasurer. — Mr. A. R. Davis. 



Honorary Chaplain. — Rev. Canon Macnab. 



Honorary Genealogist. — Mr. E. M. Chadwick, K.C. 



Honorary Legal Adviser. — Mr. C. E. Macdonald. 



Executive Committee. — Major W. N. Keefer; Mr. C. E. Macdonald; 

 Mr. E. A. Maclaurin; Captain V. A. Hall; Mr. J. S. Carstairs, B.A.; Mr. 

 F. O. Loft; Mr. R. E. A. Land; Miss Catharine Merritt; Mrs. R. Stearns 

 Hicks; Mrs. Edmund Phillips. 



Central Council. — The Executive Committee and the following: — 

 Rev. Canon Alfred Brown, Halifax; Mr. George H. Ham, Montreal; 

 Colonel A. H. Macdonald, Guclpii; Sir John Beverley Robinson, lOdge- 

 water, N.J. ; Lt.-Colonel J. J. Gregory, Lacoml)e, Alta. ; Mrs. John J. 

 Gemmel, Ottawa; Egerton B. L. Hill, Vancouver; Lt.-Colonel R. W. 

 Gregory, St. Catharines; Mr. H. S. Seaman, Winnipeg; Lt.-Colonel H. C. 



