CVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
of the Magaguadavic river in connection with the determination of 
the international boundary in 1797. The documents are annotated 
in the careful and thorough manner which characterises Dr. Ganong’s 
work, and are illustrated by reproductions of the plans made by the 
British Surveyor, Dugald Campbell. The third paper by Dr. W. O. 
Raymond throws new light on the founding of the remarkable settle- 
ment made at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, by the Loyalists in 1783. The 
basis of this paper is the diary of Benjamin Marston, the Chief Surveyor, 
which has been preserved among the papers in possession of the de- 
scendants of the late Judge Edward Winslow. The Journal has not been 
published in full; but the quotations are such as to supply everything 
of importance, and the writer of the paper has supplied, from Marston’s 
private correspondence and from other sources, a vast amount of ad- 
ditional information serving to illumine the obscurities that have here- 
tofore puzzled those who have studied the romantic tale of the founding 
of ancient Shelburne. 
The Society continues to accumulate historic documents and other 
materials of interest from time to time. Under the capable supervision 
of Mr. Jonas Howe, the Muster Rolls of the Loyalist Regiments, which 
served during the American Revolution on the side of the Crown, are 
- being bound in volumes for more convenient reference and for better 
preservation, 
St. John, N.B., Sept., 1910. 
XVIII.—Report of the Niagara Historical Society. 
Presented through the HONORARY SECRETARY. 
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We are glad to be able to report that, as a Society, we have had 
a year of continued prosperity. As regards membership, papers read, 
sale of pamphlets, visitors, additions to our collection, we have not 
fallen behind the reports 7 other years. 
There were held during the winter months six regular meetings at 
which the following papers were read: 
Reminiscences of the Fenian Raid, Parts I, II and III, by Charles 
Hunter of Toronto. ; 
“Reminiscences of Life in Niagara and St. David’s,” by Mrs. J. G. 
Currie, St. Catharines. 
“Translation of the Journal of Thomas de Boucherville relating to 
events from 1802 to 1814, in the Niagara peninsula”, by Miss Carnochan. 
“Canadian Confederation in the making, with some Glimpses of 
he Confederators,” by Rev. A. F. MacGregor, M.A. 
