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contained in these papers already proving sufficient justification for the 
Government grant. In preparing the papers read before our Society, 
the Archives have been our unfailing treasure house for trustworthy 
originals and our Society would place on record its hearty appreciation 
of the aid and courtesy of the Dominion Archivist, Dr. Doughty. 
In the Normal School Hall on the evening of November 12th, under 
the auspices of our Society, was held the inaugural lecture of the course 
arranged by the joint Literary, Scientific and Art Societies of the Capital. 
“Men I have met,” was the subject of the delightfully interesting address 
by the Hon. Mr. Justice Longley of Halifax. King Edward, Theodore 
Roosevelt, Sir John A. Macdonald, Goldwin Smith, Joseph Howe, 
Marie Corelli and others, were all brought before the audience in an 
inimitable manner. Canon Kittson wittily moved, and Dr. White 
appropriately seconded the motion of appreciation, Sir Louis Davies 
proving an ideal chairman. 
At the December meeting the paper of the day was given by Miss 
Amey Horsey, who dealt in a most interesting and comprehensive 
manner with the “Battle of the Windmill,” which took place near 
Prescott at the time of the Rebellion, 1838. That old windmill is now 
doing duty as a lighthouse. The Canadian History portion, by Miss 
Eva Read, referred to the U.K. Loyalists, first so called in 1789, and was 
most appreciatively received, especially by many among our members 
who are descendants of the United Empire Loyalists. 
On the 14th January the first general meeting of 1910 was held, 
when a paper on the “Battle and Battlegrounds of St. Denis and St. 
Charles” was given in an admirable manner by Miss O’Gara, followed 
by a most interesting reading from Tracey’s Tercentenary History of 
Canada, on the “Constitutional Act,” by Miss Lina Rothwell. 
February’s paper on the “Siege of Louisburg” was ably treated by 
Miss Eva Read, who dealt with the first siege, that of 1745, describing 
the splendid old fortress on the southern side of Cape Breton, which 
had occupied such a prominent place in the world’s history. A stone 
bastion sunk in the ground is now all that is left to mark the spot. 
Following the paper, in place of the usual chapter of history, 
Mrs. J. B. Simpson presented her report as delegate to the Twenty-fifth 
anniversary celebration of the American Historical Association, held 
in New York from 27th to 31st, December 1909, the report of which 
will appear in the printed Annual Report of the Society. 
On March 11th, the last paper of the season was given and a digression 
made from Canadian to British battlegrounds, when Mrs. Somerset 
Graves, whose husband, Colonel Graves, lived 30 years in India, gave 
a graphic account of the siege of Cawnpore, having visited the locality 
