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showed in what way Canada had been settled and where 
the folk-lorist had the best opportunities with regard to 
each race or nationality. He next gave a summary of what 
had already been done in the way of Folk-Lore research 
by Abbé Petitot, Mr. H. Hale, Dr. F. Boas, Mr. A. F. Cham- 
berlain, Abbé Maurault, Dr. G. M. Dawson, Mr. James 
Deans, the late Dr. Rand, Mrs. W. W. Brown, the Rev. 
John McLean, Father Lacombe, Rev. E. F. Wilson, Mr. 
Fréchette, Mr. R. G. Haliburton, Mr. Beaugrand, etc. He 
also referred to the colonies of Norsemen, Russians, Hun- 
garians, Roumanians, Chinese, etc., settled in Western 
Canada, all with strongly marked racial features in their 
social, religious and industrial life. Finally, the essayist 
called attention to the mass of virtually forgotten lore to 
be found in the works of Champlain, the Jesuits’ Relations, 
Charlevoix, de Gaspé, the writings of travellers, Nor. 
Westers (including the Hon. Mr. Masson’s excellent series) 
Mr. Canniff Haight’s ‘‘ Country Life in Canada,” the writ- 
ings of Messrs. LeMoine, Sulte, F. de Saint Maurice, and 
numerous other works of the past and present. 
After a short discussion, Mr. Fréchette read a paper, 
entitled “‘ La Corriveau,” based on a double murder and 
two-fold trial—the latter of which took place in the year 
1763, near the close of the Réegne Militaire, and was a strik- 
ing illustration of the legal barbarism of the time. It was, 
however, in the superstitions that gathered around the un- 
hallowed spot where the murderess was hanged in chains 
and enclosed within an iron cage, that the interest of the 
story for folk-lorists mainly consisted. We would gladly 
give a fuller account of Mr. Fréchette’s thrilling paper, 
which was read in excellent English, had not the author 
expressed a wish that it should not be published—the 
publication of it being already arranged for. 
After music, conversation and refreshments, the meeting 
separated, with the understanding that the Society should 
meet again at a place to be designated by the Ladies Com- 
mittee, on the second Monday in November, when Prof. 
Penhallow would read a paper on ‘‘ Epitaphs.” 
