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minutes, I have learned that it was read on Saturday, December st, 
1877. There is a full report in the G/ode of Dec. 3rd following, which 
[have examined. Mr. Tully gives a full and interesting account of the 
researches made by himself and others. Mr. Tully’s paper is undoubt- 
edly a valuable record and I respectfully suggest it should be published 
in our proceedings. 
Mr. Campbell and Mr. Tully agree in the main; in my judgment 
the following conclusions are incontestably established :— 
1. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic was built by a joint stock 
company at the yard of Campbell & Black in Quebec, in the year 
1830-31.* (See information in foot-note, for which I am indebted to the 
kindness of Mr. Archibald Campbell, since this paper was read.) 
*According to the Register of the *‘ Royal William” in the Customs House, Port of Quebec, 
dated 22nd August, 1831, the subscribing owners, as Trustees of the incorporated ‘‘ Quebec and 
- Halifax Steam Navigation Company,” representing sixty-four shares, were William Findlay, 
William Walker and Jeremiah Leaycraft, of Quebec, Merchants. 
SHAREHOLDERS OF THE INCORPORATED COMPANY. 
Parties constituted and declared to be one body corporate and politic by the name of ‘* Zhe 
Qucbec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company,” under ist Wm. IV., Cap. 33 of Lower 
Canada Statutes :—Jchn Forsyth, Wm. Walker, Wm. Finlay, John Caldwell, Jeremiah 
Leaycraft, Henry Le Mesurier, William Price, Matthew Bell, George Keys, William 
Pemberton, George Pemberton, Henry Pemberton, John Saxton Campbell, Robert Paterson, 
Robert Shortis, James Hamilton, James Gibb, Chas. Felix Aylwin, Hypolite Dubord, Noah 
Freer, Augustus Freer, Charles A. Holt, Francis Bell, James Hunt, Samuel Neilson, Wm. 
Lampson, John Leather, Robert Shaw, Wm. Phillips, John Ryan, James Stansfeld, Wm. 
Sheppard, Thos. Tucker, John Jones, jr., Benjamin Torrance, Wm. Henderson, Alexander 
Simpson, James Clearihew, Peter Paterson, Charles Francis Roy, George Black, Joseph Stone 
Shaw, John Racey, Duucan McCallum, Colin McCallum, Joseph Dyke, Robert Pope Ross, 
John Fraser, John Malcolm Fraser, John Bell, John Miller, James Saunders, James McKenzie, 
Margaret Urquhart, John Lambly, Alexander Morrison, Thomas Gordon, David Logan, 
George Taylor, Allison Davie, Robert Dalkin, John Munn, John Douglas, Archibald Campbell, 
Wm. Henry Roy, Wm. Carter, John McLeod, John Kerr, Kobert Daunton, Robert Richardson, 
Thomas Gibb, Dominic Daly, Joachim Mondor, James Edie, Alexander Clarke, John Richard- 
son, George Moffat, Peter McGill, Adam L. McNider, John Torrance, Robert W. Harwood, 
Hector Russel, Hart Logan, Lewis Gugy, Chas. Wm. Grant, Horatio Gates, Nathaniel Jones, 
Wm. Ritchie, James Brackenridge, Wm. Budden, Andrew Shaw, Samuel Cunard, Richard 
Harney, sr,, Richard C. T'remain, Henry Prior, John Rutchford, jr., Alex Murison, Frederick W. 
Clarke, Edward De Blois, James Mitchell, J. G. A. Creighton, Thomas Grassie, Joseph Starr, 
Andrew Belcher, George Rundell, James Bridge. Robert Romans, Adam Esson, Temple 
Lewis Piers, John Alexander Barry, James Bain, George Smith, John Howe, George 
Russel, Alexander McDonald, James McDonald, William Carritt, J. Tobin, Mickel 
Tobin, George P. Lawson, Edward Potter, James H. Tidmarsh, Alexander Keith, Eliza 
Leggatt, William Brahm, Henry Lockeyer, Adam Dechezineany, Nicolas Le Cain, 
George Handley, Conrad West, John Stayner, Richard Marshall, Richard Davis, James 
Ritchie, Charles Delvolf, John Johnson, John Johnson, jr., Chas. Fairbanks, Alexander 
Primrose, Alexander McGregor, John Munro, David Hare, Thos. Maynard, Thos. Grant, 
Andrew Fraser, Peter McNab, Robert Downes, James T. Avery, Robert Dawson, Wm. Black, 
