APPENDIX E XCVII 
VII.—Report of Niagara Historical Society 1911. 
Presented by the Honorary Secretary. 
In presenting the report of the Niagara Historical Society we 
are pleased to be able to say that the year has been one of progress in 
almost every direction aimed at. Regular meetings were held from 
October to April and papers read. At the annual meeting on October 
13th, 1910, it was announced that never in any year had so many 
members been added to our number, as thirty-one names had been 
added to the roll, we now number 170 but have to deplore the loss by 
death of several valued members. Mrs. McGaw, Miss Gordon, J. Howard 
Hunter also Alexander Servos who had presented several valuable 
relics. An Honorary member Dr. David Boyle, the Archaeologist 
had been a faithful friend to the Society in word and deed in many 
ways and his name will not be forgotten by us. 
The following papers were read: in November, History of the 
Chicora by A . J. Clark also extracts from the Freeman’s Journal 
published in Niagara in 1810; in December the History of Fort Niagara 
by Miss Carnochan; in January also by the President a paper relating 
to placing the obelisk in 1860 which marks the spot where General 
Brock fell embracing letters from Judge McLean, Sir Allan Macnab, 
Col. McDonnell addressed to Col. McDougall; in February a paper by 
E. Green, Ottawa, Lundy’s Lane and some graves there; in March 
letters of Charles Askin and General Shaaffe contributed by Col. Cruik- 
shank, Calgary and some account of laying the corner stone of St. 
Andrew’s Church, 1831, by the President of the Society; in April a 
paper contributed by H. Roe, St. Thomas giving an account of a visit 
to Ireland in 1910. 
Several valuable contributions have been made from widely 
different points. A remarkable Memorial chart taken from a temple in 
Pekin China at the time of the Relief of the Legations, 1900, a pocket 
compass and sundial also from China, some articles from South Africa 
in the Boer war, the Prayer book and Gospel of St. Mark in the Mohawk 
language, translated by Chief Brant (Thyendanegea) 1787, the historic 
copper kettle of Laura Ingersoll Secord, a deed signed by John Jacob 
Astor in 1806 and receipts signed by Indians, some of them the sons 
of Mary Jamison “the white woman” who lived among the Indians, 
also relics going back to the battle of Culloden and the Indian Mutiny, 
an ancient piano which was one of two in York now Toronto nearly a 
hundred years ago. Another contribution was seventy-seven lantern 
slides of views in Norway accompanied by a descriptive lecture sent 
from Scotland. 
Another pamphlet has been printed No. 20, which contains Re- 
miniscences of the Fenian Raid by Charles Hunter, Reminiscences of 
