CXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



from the Director of :he Liege Exposition, a copy of the bronze medal 

 from said exposition; from Mademoiselle Cartier, daughter of the late 

 Sir George Etienne Cartier, an oil portrait of her late distinguished 

 father. The presentation of :his portrait was the occasion of a pleasing 

 function held at the Chateau on the 38th December, 1907, and largely 

 attended by men of political prominence. Mr. Charles Mair, the well- 

 known poet of the Northwest, presented a voyageur copper kettle, found 

 near Prince Albert, and most probably in use in the Hudson Bay ser- 

 vice before the) conquest. Also a small copper kettle used by voyageurs 

 of the French Eur Company, found many years ago on the Sou:h Branch 

 of the Saskatachewan River, near Prince Albert, From the Supreme 

 Court of tlie Independent Order of Foresters, Toronto, through Mr. V. 

 Morin, ISr.P., came the flag used by the patriot's of 1837 in the battle of 

 St. Eustache. 



Among the interesting lectures given by the members of the Society 

 was that of Mr. J. B. Leamiout on "' Folklore and Canadian Folklore,"' 

 being a description of the life, manners and customs of tlie habitant and 

 French Canadian of some 50 years ago. The lecture was illustrated Avith 

 a couple of good paintings. Others were, — by Mr. R. W. McLachlan, 

 " The Canadian Harp Tokens dated 1820, " " Exhibition of 115 coins 

 andî medals added to his collection of 1906, " and '" The Original His- 

 tory of Mount Royal"; "Michel Bibeau, '' by the Hon. L. W. Sicotte; 

 " La Corne St. Luc, " by W. D. Lighthall, also " Canadian Literature"; 

 M,r. McLachlan exhibited and lectured on some 200 coins and medals 

 added to his collection during 1907 ; " Conditions of a Colonial Litera- 

 ture," by W. D. Lighthall, in which reference is made to an Oliver 

 Goldsmith, nephew of the famed author of " The Deserted Village, " 

 who was a Collector of Customs in the Lower Provinces in the begin- 

 ning of the last century, and in 1835 published " The Rising Village.'' 



The excursion to Ticonderoga on May the 18th, 1907, Avas enjoyed 

 by a number of the members of the Society, and a pleasant day was spent 

 on the grounds of so much interest to Canadians and of moment in the 

 history of Canada. 



At the annual meeting for 1908, "the Society re-asserted its views, 

 expressed the loth November, 1898, adopting a resolution in favour of 

 the preservation and restoration of the Plains of Abraham, and the 

 Battlefields of Ste. Foye. The Society further entered upon the pre- 

 liminaries of the celebration in 1911 of the Tercentenary of Montreal as 

 the " Commercial Metropolis of the Dominion." 



Extensive repairs were made to the upper part of the Chateau, 

 which will enable the Society to comfortably enlarge the library therein. 



