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REPOKT — 1898. 

 Simcoe Co. 



York Co. 



In Britisli Columbia the immigrant population is so newly established, 

 and has occuired so largely by individual acci'etions from sources already 

 most heterogeneous in character, that it seems scarcely possible to pursue 

 with profit a similar method of study. The native races, however, there 

 afford, whether from an ethnological or an archreological point of view, a 

 field of inquiry still wide, although daily narrowing and requiring prompt 

 and efficient action if much is to be placed on record for posterity. 



Mr. C. Hill-Tout has been able to accomplish some work in this 

 province, in the record of such facts as have come to his notice, and these 

 are presented in Appendix I. of this report. Mr. Hill-Tout writes as 

 follows : — 



' I send in some notes on the folklore of this district, which 1 

 have sought to record whenever possible on the lines suggested by the 

 English Committee, and trust they will be found useful. I also enclose a 

 set of (3) photographs in duplicate of a rock-painting found on a cliff 

 about twenty miles from Vancouver. The Indians of the neighbourhood 

 know nothing of it or of its meaning. I venture no opinion upon it 

 myself. In my next report I hope to have more to communicate. I have 

 in hand the following : — 



