CXVIII THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
12 Apr. 1912.—“ History of the Postage Stamps of Nova Scotia,” by 
Donald A. King, Halifax. 
3 May 1912.—“ Notes on the French and Pre-Revolutionary Settle- 
ments of Shelburne County, N.S.,” by Dr. T. C. Lock- 
wood, Lockeport, N.S. 
XV.—Report of the Niagara Historical Society 1912. 
(Received too late to be read at the Annual Meeting). 
Officers for the year 1911-12:— 
Honorary President.—Col. Cruikshank, F.R.S.C. 
President.—Miss Carnochan. 
Vice-President.—Rev. J. C. Garrett. 
Second Vice-President.—Mrs. T. F. Best. 
Secretary.—John Eckersley. 
Treasurer.—Mrs. 8. D. Manning. 
Curator and Editor.—Miss Carnochan. 
Assistant Curator.—Mrs. E. J. Thompson. 
Committee.—W. R. McClelland, F. J. Rowland, A. Ball, Mrs. Goff, 
Wm. Ryan. 
Life Members.—T. Kennard Thomson, C.E., Nicol Kingsmill, K.C., 
Mrs. J. E. Wilson, Arthur E. Paffard, Mrs. C. Baur, R. Biggar Best. 
The progress made by our Society during the year has been very 
gratifying as regards membership, literature distributed, contributions 
to contents of the building, interest shown, visitors and one object aimed 
at for several years has this year been accomplished, namely, obtaining 
a catalogue of the articles in the room. The work of preparing this by 
the President was no slight task, the printing was done for us by our 
kind friend John Ross Robertson, who has presented us with 1,000 
copies to be sold for the benefit of the Society, and to him we feel deeply 
erateful. 
During the year regular meetings were held and the following 
papers read: Early History of Queenston by the President, The History 
of No. 1 Co. Niagara by Mrs. Ascher, A Critical discussion of a poem on 
Wolfe by Dr. D. Anderson was read by Mr. J. C. Clark, A poem by T. A. 
Boys of the North-West Mounted Police, The Riders of the Plain, was 
also read, and an open meeting, which was well attended, was held to 
hear a very interesting address by J. Stewart Carstairs, who came to 
us at great personal inconvenience in inclement weather. Several 
