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Bry inner, Douglas. Continued. 



du Chien, by Lieut.-Col. McKay, in 1814, taken from 

 the original documents among the Archives gives de- 

 tails of a little known episode in the war of 1812. 

 Fort McKay, so called after the capture, was restored 

 to the United States ut the close of the war. Some 

 idea may be formed of the hardships experienced by 

 the early explorers for a route to bo used by the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, by the journal kept by Mr. 

 llanington of his survey in the Rocky Mountains 

 during the winter of 1874-5. 



In 1888, tin' eali'iidar of tin- llaliliiiiiind collection 

 was continued. Tbo papers published in full as notes 

 to the preliminary report have the titles : Tbo Walker 

 Outrage, 1764; General Murray's Recall ; the French 

 Noblesse in Canada alter 176D ; Pierre du C'alvet ; the 

 Northwest Trade and French Royalists in Upper 

 Canada. In the preliminary report are sketches of 

 the character, etc.,ol Walker, the subject of the out- 

 rage) and of Pierre du Calvet, whose statements are 

 rigorously weighed in the light of the correspondence. 

 The almost forgotten attempt of French Royalists 

 under the Count de Puisaye to settle in Upper Canada 

 alter the Revolutionary party in France had been fully 

 established is clearly shown by the correspondence on 

 the subject, which is published in this report in full, 

 and by the sketches in the preliminary report. 



In 1859, tin- calendar of the Haldiinand col/t clion is 

 completed and the diary of llaldimand, containing 

 many curious entries among many that are very 

 trivial, is printed in full with careful translation, the 

 names mentioned being so far as possible identified. 

 The Bouquet Collection is also calendared, being begun 

 and completed in this report. Bouquet, it may be 

 mentioned, was a brother soldier with Haldiiuand, 

 both being foreign officers of the Royal American, 

 afterwards the 60th regiment. In the preliminary re- 

 port is a reprint of a paper on Archives, read before 

 the American Historical. Association, which gives a 

 history of the origin and progress of the department. 

 / A sketch of the schools and schoolmasters in Canada 

 is in the body of the preliminary report; remarks 

 on early explorers in the Northwest ; additional re- 

 marks on the forgotten canal at Sault Ste, Marie, with 

 lithographed views of the remains. The general 

 topics dealt with are Northwestern explorations, the 

 journal of La Verandrye of 1738-39 and other twelve 

 documents on the subject being printed in full; re- 

 / ligious, educational and other statistics; Vermont 

 negotiations; Before and after the battle of Edge 

 Hill (usually called the battle of Bushy Run), includes 

 the original correspondence published in full ; the 

 Reservation of Indian Lands (after the capture of 

 Canada in 1700 and the treaty of Paris in 17ti : i) ; cor- 

 respondence respecting the construction of a canal 

 from Lake Chumplain to the St. Lawrence in 1785 to 



use. 



In 1890, Ilie calendar of the State Papers for the 

 Province of Qni'bec was begun, the preliminary report 

 giving a summary of the history included in the 

 papers, such as the advances made by Amherst, the 

 first Governor, to give the inhabitants after the sur- 

 rcnderin 1760 an opportunity to retrieve their fortunes- 

 the Government and recall of Murray, the first Lieut. 

 Governor ; the accession of Cnrleton ; the passing of 

 the Constitutional Act of 1774 ; a reference to the 

 Revolutionary war, and a summary of the papers 

 published in full, which are under these heads : Ad- 

 ministration of Justice (after the close of the military 

 rule in Quebec ; Correspondence respecting the Con- 

 stitutional Act of 1791 ; Northwestern exploration ; 

 Internal communication in Canada ; Relations with 

 the United States after the peace of 1783 A litho- 

 graphed map of one by Peter Pond, an Indian trader, 



Bry inner, Douglas. Continued. 



hitherto unpublished, illustrates the documents re- 

 specting the Northwest in the report for this year. 



In 1891, the calendar of tlin ,SV,'- f\ij>'Tn />,/ I 

 and Upper Canada, the Province of Quebec being no 

 divided into two, is begun, and contains lists of the 

 applicants for and grantees of hinds, place I in alpha- 

 betical order at the end of each volume calendared 

 which contains the applications. The preliminary 

 report summarizes the history of the period covrred 

 by the calendar from 1792 lo 1800 in the case til Lower 

 Canada, and to 1801 in that of Upper Canada. The 

 correspondence is published in full on the subject* of 

 which the titles are ; Settlements and surveys ; Divi- 

 sion of Upper Canada; War with France; French 

 republican designs on Canada; and the marriage law 

 in Upper Canada. A map of Upper Canada for 1798 

 shows the extent of settlement at that date. 

 . In 1H92, the calendar of State l\ipcn fnr Lu<rr ami 



Upper Canada from HOO to 1807 was continued. In 

 the preliminary report the efforts to increase the re- 

 venue in Lower Canada are traced, and especially in 

 regard to the St. Maurice Forges; the lettling of 

 lands in both Provinces ; the question of the Jesuit 

 Estates; a sketch of the services of Mr. Bouchette 

 the Surveyor-General ; the state of religion, and the 



steps towards building an Anglic in cathedral i-i Que- 

 bec; remarks on the Northwest fur trade. The 

 titles of the subjects, in regard to which the papers are 

 published in full, will serve to tliow the general na- 

 ture of the report. These are : Setilements and sur- 

 veys ; Lower Canada in 1800; Ecclesiastical affair** in 

 Lower Canada; Political state of Upper Canada, 1806 

 and 18U7; Courts of justice for the Indian country; 

 and Proposed general fishery and fur company. 



In 1893, owing to the absence of Dr. Brymner in 

 London, making investigations, the report is confined 

 to the calendar of State Papers for Lower and Upper 

 Canada from 1808 to 1813. 



X Burgess, T. J. \V. 



Polypus of the Heart. 



Canadian Journal of Medical Science, May, 1879, 



Toronto, 



The Beneficent and Toxic Effects of the Various 

 Species of Rhus. 



Hid., November, 1880, Toronto Also, Sri-nt'ific 

 Ameriran Supplement, December, 1880, New York. 



Botanical Notes from Canada. 



Botanical (lazctte. Vol. Til., Nos. 8 and 9, August 

 and September, 1882, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 A Botanical Holiday in Nova Scotia. 



lliid., Vol. ix., N -s. 1, 2, 3 and 4, January. Feb- 

 ruary, March and April, 1834, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Canadian Filicineiv. By John Macoun, M. A., and 

 T. J. W. Burgess, M.B. 



Transaction* of I/if lt]ntl Society of Canarli Vol. 

 II , Sec. 4, 1884. 

 Aspidium Oreopteris. 



Botanical Gazette. Vol. xi., No. 3, March, 1886, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 



Recent Additions to Canadian B^ilicinea", with 

 new stations for some of the species previously 

 recorded. 



Iransactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Vol. 

 vi., Sec. 4,1886. 

 How to Study Botany. 



Journal and Proceedings of the Hamilton Association 

 Part iv., 1887-8, Hamilton. 



