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Vice-President — H. C. Howard. 

 Secretary-Treasurer— C. E. Bastin, B.A. 



Council — Rev. Father Blain, S.J.; Professor N. B. McLean, 

 M.A.; Messrs. F. Powell, H. W. Malpass, J. H. Kolb. 



III. — Report of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa. 



Presented by Mrs. J. B. Simpson, Hon. Rec. Sec, Delegate. 



The season of 1913-14 is replete with anniversaries and centenaries 

 in our Canadian history from victories of war to victories of peace. 

 Stoney Creek and Chryslers Farm, to the Treaty of Ghent, the Peace 

 Centenary, all of which is especially dealt with in this year's work 

 of our Society. 



During the season 14 meetings have been held, 6 general and 8 

 executive. The Annual Report for 1912-13 has been published, and 

 reprint of Vol. I urgently requested. Our Treaty Series, the papers 

 for Vol. VI will not be completed till next season. 



Representatives from our Society attended the Stoney Creek 

 and Chrysler's Farm Centennials; and reports were read at the 

 Annual Meetings of the Royal Society of Canada in Ottawa; the On- 

 tario Historical Society, Chatham; the American Historical Ass'n, 

 Charleston, N.C., and the Local Council of Women. 



The first meeting was addressed by J. S. Carstairs, B.A., on the 

 United Empire Loyalists; and the following papers were prepared 

 and read by members of the Society at the general monthly meetings : — 

 The Stony Creek Centennial — unveiling of monument by Queen Mary 

 from Buckingham Palace, by our President, Mrs. Thos. Ahearn; 

 Report of Ontario Society's Annual, by Mrs. Billings; Treaty of 

 Ghent, Miss Muriel Shortt; Centenary Celebration of Chrysler's 

 Farm, Miss Eva Read ; Regime of Sir Charles Metcalfe and Lord Elgin, 

 Mrs. J. Lome McDougall; the Ashburton Treaty, Miss Hazel Biggar; 

 Reciprocity Treaty, 1854, Mrs. W. P. Davis; Account of an Old Cairn 

 on Squaw Island in Lake St. Francis, Miss Mary Masson; and Some 

 Reminiscences of Confederation, by Mrs. Walter Armstrong. 



Through the efforts of the Society a small beginning has been 

 made, and the City's first tangible recognition of its Founder, a 

 portrait bust of Lt. Col. John By, R.E., is now in place of honour 

 in the Council Chamber of the City Hall. While their ideal proj- 

 ect, the monument symbolical of the Confederation of the Prov- 

 i nces, the birth of our Dominion, is about to materialize most appro- 

 priately on Connaught Place, the centre of the Capital of the Dominion 

 of Canada. A hearty personal tribute to our Society's efforts in that 



