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Other Members of Council.—Archibald Frame, A. H. Buckley, 
G. W. T. Irving and James H. Trefry. 
Library Commissioners. —Professor MacMechan, Rev. Dr. Forrest, 
Dr. A. H. MacKay and James S.MacDonald. 
X.—Report of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa. 
Presented by Mrs. J. B. Srupson, Hon’y. Recording Secretary, 
Delegate. 
The season of 1909-10, so auspiciously entered upon, marks the 
most successful era in our Women’s Canadian Historical Society. 
Fifteen meetings have been held, nine executive (three of which 
were special), and six general. The annual meetings of our Society 
are held each year on the 29th day of March, the anniversary of the 
passing of the Imperial Act known as “The British North America 
Act, 1867,” which provided for the voluntary union of the whole of 
British North America into one confederation, under the name of 
The Dominion of Canada. 
On October 8th, the first general meeting (an open one), was held 
in the Y.W.C A Hall, when a large gathering of members and friends 
in attendance were favored with an address on the “ Ashburton Treaty ” 
by Prof. Adam Shortt, in listening to whom our long-cherished griev- 
ances on that famous subject seemed to roll away. Mr. A. E. Fripp, 
M.L.A., one of the two members so kindly instrumental in obtaining the 
grant from the Ontario Government for our Society, occupied the 
chair. At the close of Prof. Shortt’s extremely interesting address, a 
vote of thanks was moved by Mr. James White, Dominion Geographer and 
seconded by Mr. Benjamin Sulte, after which a very pleasant social 
half hour was spent. 
At the November meeting, the paper of the day, a continuation 
of the Canadian Battlefield series, was given by the President, Mrs. 
Ahearn, entitled “The Battlegrounds of the Niagara Peninsula.” It 
was full of interest, covering Queenston Heights, Stony Creek, 
Chippewa and Beaver Dam, and was illustrated with valuable prints, 
maps and “A bird’s-eye view of the whole Niagara river,” through 
courtesy of Dr. Doughty, Dominion Archivist. The usual Canadian 
history study followed by Miss Eva Read, period of 1776 to 1783, a 
charming and instructive verbal résumé, from the revolt of the Colonists 
and “Boston Tea Party” to the signing of the second Treaty of Paris, 
commonly known as the Peace of Versailles. The second volume of 
the Transactions of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society, entitled 
“The Waterways of Canada,” was laid on the table, the valuable matter 
