ON THE ETHXOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 009 



' 1 . Report on the Arclijoology of Ly tton and its neighbourhood. 



' 2. Folklore stories from same area. 



' 3. Vocabulary and Grammar notes on the ISTtlakapamuq. 



' i. Vocabulary and Grammar notes on the Squamish and Matsqui 

 Yale, and other divisions of the 8alish. 



' 5. Ancient tril)al divisions and place-names. 



* G. An account of a great confederacy of tribes in the Salish region of 

 " Chilliwack." 



' I regard the collection of vocabularies and grammar notes from every 

 dialect and sub-dialect as imperatively necessary for linguistic comparison 

 The lack of these has caused me the loss of much Aaluable time and 

 retarded my own labours in this held. The work on these lines already 

 done, though excellent on the whole as far as it goes, is altogether too 

 limited and inadequate. If we are ever to be in a position to formulate 

 a law of permutation of letters for the languages of this region it is 

 absolutely necessary that specimens of dialectal difference from every 

 division of a stock be collected. It is not a simple undertaking, and will 

 require considerable time to accomplish, but its importance cannot be 

 over-estimated. 



' In this connection it gives me pleasure to inform the Committee that 

 sevcial of the leading anthropologists of Australasia have accepted the 

 evidence of Oceanic affinities of the Kwakiutl-Nootka and Salish stocks 

 as set forth by me in a paper presented at the recent meeting of the 

 Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Carroll, the editor of the "Australasian 

 Anthropological Journal," in particular regards the evidence as practically 

 conclusive. 



' The photographic and anthropometric work of the Survey I hope to 

 begin next month, the camera and instruments for which have just come 

 to hand. 



' In concluding this report I desire to call the attention of the 

 Committee to the fact that much important archreological work is awaiting 

 development here for lack of funds to carry it on ; the necessity for 

 energetically prosecuting which, without further delay if it is to be done 

 at ,ill, T cannot impress too strongly upon all who are interested in this 

 work of tlie Survey. Every month sees valuable records defaced and 

 ol)literated, either by relic hunters or by the progress of civilisation, and 

 the day is not far distant when all trace of the past life and conditions of 

 the aborigines such as are contained in the middens and mounds will be 

 entirely swept away.' 



Pending a more complete analysis of the early immigrants from France 

 to Quebec, which it is hoped may take eventually a tabular and numerical 

 form, Mr. B. Suite has extended the inquiry communicated to your 

 Committee last year by following up the indications of the habits and 

 mode of life of the early colonists by means of such contemporary records 

 as still exist. It is not too much to hope that eventually we may possess 

 a very complete picture of this unique occupation of a part of the North 

 American continent from Old France, and of the formative stages 

 of a new French-speaking people, in all its aspects. The paper forms 

 Appendix II. of this report. 



In conclusion the Committee has to report that of the grant entrusted 

 to it at the Toronto meeting a balance of 35/. 17*'. remains. The Com- 

 mittee asks to be reappointed and to be permitted to expend the above- 



