2 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [ Vou. TT: 
Gloucester Bay was on the other side of Tiny peninsula from Matchedash 
Bay, that the whole bay was called Gloucester Bay by Governor Simcoe 
in 1793, and that the route to Drummond Island was used till 1841. 
Mr. A. C. Osborne read a paper on “ The Land of the Wyandots.” 
Mr. O. A. Howland said the reader referred to the Indians offering 
tobacco to the Chaudiere Falls. It was probably as a propitiation to 
some presiding spirit, offered to secure a successful journey on the Great 
River. He had heard from the Indians on the North Shore of Lake 
Michigan a similar tradition about the cliff called the “ Lover’s Leap” on 
Mackinaw Island. The cliff overlooks the Straits of Mackinaw. The 
island is about midway in what must have seemed to canoemen a “grand 
traverse.” According to the tradition given him, which he believed to 
be the true one, the Indians used to land and lay their offerings on this 
natural altar to the good or evil spirit presiding over the spot as thanks 
for a safe voyage so far and propitiation against the dangers of the 
remainder of the passage. 
Rev. Father Laboureau said the offering of tobacco is not out of date. 
A practice still exists among many Indians of throwing a bit of tobacco 
to the “old woman.” 
Mr. Alan Macdougall read a paper on “The Indians of the Pacific 
Coast, an Attempt to Define their Artistic Work.” 
Second Meeting, 25th September, 1891, at 20 o’clock, in the Town 
Hall, the Mayor in the chair. 
The Mayor delivered an address of welcome, to which a reply was 
made by Dr. Meredith. 
Mr. David Boyle read a paper on “ The Indian as a Mechanic’ 
Rev. Father Laboureau read a paper on “The Early History of the 
the Mission of St. Anne’s, Penetanguishene.” There was, he said, a 
naval and military station in Drummond Island at the time of its cession 
to the United States, and also a considerable number of traders, mer- 
chants, and their servants, mostly French Canadians, half-breeds, and 
Indians. The military and naval post was removed in the fall of 1827 
to Penetanguishene. The civilians followed in the spring of the follow- 
ing year, landing at what is now the Reformatory Point. Barracks were 
then erected, and the civilians, after a year and a half, removed to the 
present town. The Indians were scattered around at Waubaushene, 
Coldwater, Beausoleil, Manitoulin, some staying at Penetanguishene. In 
February, 1832, Bishop Macdonnell, of Kingston, made his first pastoral 
