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this copy has been affixed to a glacial boulder placed in front of 

 the Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa. 



After the dedication of the Logan memorial at Perce, the rock 

 to which it was attached and the entire plot of land surrounding 

 this rock were freely presented to the Logan Memorial committee 

 as a public park by the owners of the property, Robin, Jones and 

 Whitman, Ltd. (formerly the Charles Robin Co.) through the 

 active and courteous intervention of Messrs John LeMarquand of 

 Perce and William F. Hamon of Paspebiac, for the company. In 

 response to this generous act the committee agreed to put the 

 property in good order and to maintain it in accordance with the 

 terms of the gift. In due course the property has been transferred 

 to the Crown in the trusteeship of the federal Department of 

 Mines. 



The writer was asked by the committee to take all charge of the 

 placing of the memorial, the preliminaries in the acquisition and 

 transfer of the property and the plans and expenditures for the 

 improvement of the plot. The lamented Dr A. E. Barlow, dis- 

 tinguished geologist and chairman of the Logan Memorial com- 

 mittee, the day before he sailed on the ill-starred "Empress of 

 Ireland," transferred to the writer a sum of money raised by his 

 committee to be expended as indicated. With this the park has been 

 carefully cleaned of debris, inclosed by an iron fence with gates 

 both at the main road at the lower end and at the adjoining prop- 

 erty on the upper end of the plot, with a walk connecting the two 

 gateways. In the protected corners of the park, Jersey willows have 

 been set out, in the hope that there is protection enough in the lee 

 from the salt winds to let them grow. 



The geologic interest of this place lies first in the rock to which 

 the memorial is attached — a projecting vertical ledge of Ordovic 

 or Cambric " edge-on " limestone conglomerate whose sharp con- 

 tours are rounded by weather and whose broad back is softened 

 by gray and yellow mosses. This rock pierces the sloping surface 

 of the hill in such a way that at the upper end one can mount the 

 summit from the level, while at the bottom where the tablet is 

 placed the rock face rises 30 feet in the air. The surroundings 

 of this little memorial spot are most beautiful. On one side rises 

 the high, sheer, deep red rock face of Mt Ste Anne to an elevation 

 of 1200 feet, while right and left are the sea clififs with insinuating 

 curves suggestive of the engrossing geologic problems they contain. 

 Above the park and beyond the clif¥ which hides it from the sea 



