CIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



taken do\A'n by tlie departmental workmen, our president, whose 

 action was unanimously approved by the council, tried to have it 

 repaired at the society's expense and placed over the exact spot in 

 front of where the barricade had stood. 



The Government, however, undertook this themselves, and replaced 

 the sign in its old position. 



The principal results of our work on 1775, since the erection of 

 the tablets, has been the publication, in the spring of 1905, of verbatim 

 reprints, in a volume entitled " The Blockade of Quebec in 1775-76 by 

 the American Eevolutionists " (Les Bosionnais). 



The contents comprise: 1. The Jonrnal of Thomas Ainslie; 

 2. The Journal of an unknown Diarist; 3. The Orderly Book of the 

 British Militia at Quebec, 1775-6; and 4. The Nominal Eoll of the 

 French Canadian Militia serving at Quebec during the siege. The 

 preface gives a full account of the successful efforts for the erection 

 of the tablets, and is illustrated by photographs specially taken to show 

 the inscriptions both by themselves, on a h^rge scale, as well as in 

 position on the sites once occupied by the barricades at Près-de-Yille 

 and Sault-au-Matelot. 



We have much pleasure in reporting that this volmne has also 

 been a great success wherever it has found its waj-, and that both the 

 late and the present Governors-General have expressed their warm 

 approval after a personal inspection. The experiment of sending out 

 a few reviews, or presentation copies, has proved equally encouraging. 

 Two such copies have already exerted considerable influence over two 

 forthcoming histories of prime importance. One is the new American 

 History of Canada which is being written by Mr. Frank Tracy, literary 

 editor of the Boston Transcript. The other is what promises to be 

 the greatest and most authoritative " History of the United States 

 and Its People," a magnificent work in twelve volumes, which Dr. 

 Avery has been preparing for eighteen j'^ears, and of which the Burrows 

 Brothers are already beginning the actual publication. Several other 

 copies are now doing their work equally well in many influential quar- 

 ters, and altogether, they cannot fail to have a, far reaching effect 

 in making this momentous turning-point in Canadian and Imperial 

 history both better known and better understood. 



"We have fortunately been instrumental in helping to save the 

 Martello Tower overlooking the St. Charles. The municipal aiithor- 

 ities intend to use it as a police station and keep it intact. We are 

 glad to see a strong and growing body of well-founded opinion becoming 

 more and more alive to the need and advisability of preserving the 

 splendid landmarks of Quebec. We do not wish for a moment to 



