APPENDIX E LXXXIII 



I. — From The \Vomens Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, 

 througli Mrs. O'Coxnor. 



In presenting our report before the Eoyal Society of Ottawa, we 

 are glad to record an increased activity in the furtherance of the aims 

 and objects of the Societ}', with an augmented membership and larger 

 attendance at the regular monthly meeetings. During the year seven 

 general and six executive meetings have been held at the home of the 

 president, and our treasurer reports a balance o£ $26.93. The April 

 meeting was devoted to the business of arranging for a Loan Exhibit, 

 10 be held in October, in the new Public Library, which was then 

 expected to be opened in July. The delayed completion of the Library 

 postponed the date of this exhibition from month to month, till after 

 the !March meeting it was finally decided to defer the undertaking till 

 next autumn, when the Society resumes its work. The following 

 papers were read: — 



" The Early Settlement of Hull," Mme LeLièvre. 



" Canada's Contribution to the International Exhibition of 1900,'' 

 Mrs. W. P. Davis. 



" Champlain," a sketch, Mrs. Grant Needham. 



" A Canadian Heroine of 60 years ago," Miss Carnochan, president 

 Niagara Historical Society. 



" Letter from Japan,'"' by a former member of the Society now resi- 

 dent in Japan, Miss Sara MacLean. 



" Impressions of a visit to Prince Edward Island, with a brief 

 historical sketch of the Island," Mrs. Ahearn. 



" Biographical Sketch with readings from the poems of Isabella 

 Vallency Crawford," Mrs. J. L. McDougall, Jr. . 



" Some Facts about Trinity Church, St. John," Miss Carrie Hill. 



Good work was done by the Biographical and Scrap-book commit- 

 tees under the conveners, Mrs. J. L. McDougall and Miss Mary Masson, 

 the former having in preparation a paper on the life of the late Miss 

 Harmon. The third scrap-book is in charge of Mrs. Patrick, during 

 Miss Eead's absence abroad. 



Our society has given its hearty sympathy and support to the efforts 

 cf the Ontario societies to preserve the old fort in Toronto from obliter- 

 ation, and Mrs. Geo. E. Foster, one of our vice-presidents, represented 

 the Ottawa society at a conference of historical and patriotic societies 

 with the military and municipal officials at Toronto, having this pur- 

 pose in view. In December Mrs. Ealph Jones' resignation was reluc- 

 tantly accepted and Mrs. Braddish Billings was elected to fill the office. 

 At the beginning of the year, with the Loan Exhibition in view, it 

 was decided to omit the children's meeting, which has for some years 



