APPENDIX E CM 
Lectures.—A. G. Kingston, T. E. Clarke, L. H. Newman, J. J. 
Carter, Miss Q. Jackson. 
Auditors.—R. B. Whyte, J. Ballantyne. 
ANDREW HALKETT, 
President and Delegate. 
XVII.—Report of the New Brunswick Historical Society. 
Presented by the Rev. Dr. Raymonp, F.R.S.C., Delegate. 
Since the last report to the Royal Society the New Brunswick 
Historical Society has accomplished a good deal of valuable work in 
various directions. Six years ago, through the Society’s afforts, the 
tercentenary of the discovery of the Harbour and River St. John on 
the 24th of June, 1604, by the great explorer Champlain, was fittingly 
commemorated. This was the precursor of other memorable cele- 
brations that have followed, at Quebec and elsewhere. At the time 
of the celebration it was deemed fitting that some permanent memorial 
to Champlain should be erected within the limits of the City of St. John, 
and, after due consideration, the Society approved of a design submitted 
by Mr. Hamilton McCarthy of Ottawa, for a bronze statue of Champlain 
of heroic size, to be placed upon a pedestal of native granite on a com- 
manding site overlooking the harbour. After many delays arising 
from various causes the statue was erected on Queen Square, and un- 
veiled by the mayor of the city on the 24th of June last in the presence 
of an immense concourse of spectators. Addresses were made by 
the Hon. J. D. Hazen, premier of New Brunswick, Mr. Clarence Ward, 
president of the Historical Society, and by the Hon. Dr. Landry, as a 
representative of the Acadians of the Maritime Provinces. . 
Since the last report to the Royal Society another number of the 
Collections of our Society has been published, containing three 
valuable papers. The first of these tells the story of General Monck- 
ton’s Expedition to the River St. John in 1758, and the establishment 
of Fort Frederick on the site of the Old French fort on the west side of 
St. John Harbour. From this we date the period of English occupation. 
The publication of the paper not inappropriately marked the one hundred 
and fiftieth anniversary of the first permanent settlement of the English 
in New Brunswick. The region had previously for an equal period 
been under French domination. 
The second contribution, is a continuation by our indefatigable cor- 
responding member, Dr. W. F. Ganong, of his valuable series of “ His- 
torical Geographical Documents relating to New Brunswick.” The 
paper comprises the journals of the British and American Surveyors 
