reminiscences of the gold-rush days in the Yukon, called The Long Day, or five religious books-Mysticism and Other Essays by Very Rev. Dean Llwyd; The Parables of our Lord by Bishop Fallon ; The New Man and Divine Society by Richard Roberts; The Church and its Reactions with Science by Sir Bertram C. A. Windle; and The Christian and War by a group of Montreal clergymen. One would like to mention also a popular work with an educative purpose, High Spots in Canadian History by T. C. L. Ketchum; and a particularly informative and entertaining travel book, The Glamour of British Columbia by H. Glynn-Ward.

Thompson
Memorial;
Raising of
The "Nancy";
Northcliffe
Collection;
and other
Historical
Incidents

After his remains had lain for 70 years in an unmarked grave in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, the memory of David Thompson, Canada's greatest explorer and geographer, was honoured on May 23, 1927, by the erection by the Canadian Historical Association, of an impressive shaft at his grave, bearing an inscription: "To the Memory of the Greatest of Canadian Geographers, who for 34 years explored and mapped the main Travel Routes between the St. Lawrence and the Pacific." In the absence of President G. M. Wrong, Ex-President Lawrence J. Burpee presided. Sir Frederick Williams - Taylor unveiled the monument, and J. B. Tyrrell, the leading authority on Thompson's life and work, made the commemorative address, it being just 40 years since Mr. Tyrrell first addressed a learned body on the subject. The monument was the work of Henri Hébert, R.C.A., in collaboration with John R. Shaft. Thus Canada belatedly expiated, in part at least, her former forgetfulness of one of her greatest citizens.

The Hon. William H. Price, Provincial Treasurer of Ontario, undertook in 1926 on behalf of the Province, to raise the hull of the schooner "Nancy" from the resting place it had occupied for 112 years on the bottom of the Nottawasaga River at Wasaga Beech, and to place it upon the island of silt it had formed. Built in Detroit in 1789 for the North-West Fur Company, she remained in the service of that Company until taken over by the British Government at the outbreak of the War of 1812, when she was used as a transport carrying supplies to Detroit and Niagara. After the loss of Detroit she carried supplies to the British garrison at Makinak from a point in Georgian Bay. This patriotic move was the result of interest shown by a committee, headed by Mayor Arthur of Collingwood, who made themselves responsible for the future care of the relic.

The interest in Canada's history shown by Sir Leicester Harmsworth was responsible for the Dominion Archives' greatest acquisition of the year 1926. In honour of his brother, the late Lord Northcliffe, he presented to Canada a large number of documents relating to the conquest of Quebec, which were to be known as The Northcliffe Collection. These comprise letters between

Wolfe and his generals, the last letter of Montcalm, 24 volumes from Wolfe's library, 130 volumes of General Monckton's papers, and the papers of the First Marquis Townshend. The Archives issued a comprehensive catalogue covering this collection. Sir Leicester also donated a fine painting of General John Graves Simcoe to the City of Toronto, which had been founded by him. The burial place of Governor Simcoe at Wolford, England, was purchased by Sir Leicester.

The ancient history surrounding the burial place of Tecumseh was apparently cleared up by the revelations of Chief William Edward Naudee of the Walpole Island Chippewas, and his nephew, McKenzie Naudee, who showed to a newspaper correspondent, A. C. Carty, a spot on the bank of the Thames, a mile west of Wardsville. The Indians claimed this secret had been handed down to them through five generations of guardians.

All interested in the preservation of historic sites were shocked at the news of the destruction by fire on Mar. 2, 1927, of the old Manor of Lanaudière at Three Rivers, the home of the FrenchCanadian heroine, Madeleine de Verchères; a loss which should intensify the agitation for greater care of such national shrines.

On Apr. 29, 1927, the cities of the Pacific Coast, under the leadership of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, held an international celebration to mark the 135th anniversary of the discovery of the British Columbia waters by Captain George Vancouver and, simultaneously, those of Puget Sound by Captain Robert Gray, in 1792.

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of Confederation, the Dominion Government, among other preparations, ordered a special Jubilee issue of postage stamps to be printed. Hon. Charles Murphy suggested in a speech in January, 1927, that the Government construct a permanent memorial in the form of a park, to be known as By Park, along the banks of the Ottawa River, connecting up the present Drive with Rockcliffe Park. The scheme met with instant public approval: work was immediately commenced, and was well advanced in June, 1927. Canada's sweetest monument to the Peace of 1918 takes the form of a magnificent carillon consisting of 53 bells, of a total weight, with framework, of 90 tons. These were made by Gillet and Johnson at Croydon, England, and one bears the inscription: "Cast in the presence of Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, 19th November, Placed in the Victory Tower of the Parliament Buildings, they were to be rung for the first time by His Majesty pressing a button on Dominion Day, when radio connections would be so arranged that the chimes would be heard in all parts of the Empire as a signal that the senior Dominion had reached her 60th birthday. To the celebrations, Wilson MacDonald contributed a sober and inspiring poem called An Ode on the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation, which the Canadian National Railways caused to be published and broadcast in various ways.

Other events of historical importance include the discovery by Dominion archeologists near Hazelton, B.C., of one of the extremely rare stone mirrors known to have been used in prehistoric times, and which was to be lodged in the National Museum, Ottawa.

The year 1926-27 was prolific in the erection of memorials and monuments. St. Jean Baptiste Society erected a monument in Montreal to the twelve men who were hanged on account of the abortive Papineau Rebellion in 1837-38. Canadians in the early part of 1927 were putting up a monument to General Wolfe at Greenwich, England. The Col. Macleod Chapter, I,O.D.E., completed a beautiful equestrian statue at Calgary to the men who fell in the South African War. The Dominion Government erected at Fort Talbot an imposing stone cairn to Col. Thomas Talbot, colonizer of 28 townships. The Ste. Jean Baptiste Society marked the centennial of its founding by unveiling a tablet in the Windsor Station of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal. The memory of the author of The Maple Leaf Forever was honoured by the unveiling of a tablet in the Alexander Muir School, Toronto, of which he was principal. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada was busy marking historic spots. At Preston, Brig.-Gen. E. A. Cruickshank unveiled monuments and tablets at Adam's Point, Windmill Point and Fort Wellington; and tablets were placed at the following points in the Maritime Provinces:Louisburg, Fort Cumberland, Fort Edward, Fort Anne, Fort Lawrence, Champlain's Habitation, Halifax (Province House and dockyard), Shelburne, Charlottetown, Fort Meductic, St. John, Fort Charnisay, Fort La Tour, Campbellton, Fort Monckton, Fort Nashwaak and Bathurst. The British Columbia Historical Association sought to have the old Craigflower schoolhouse officially recognized as representing early public schools in that Province; and Allan Ross Davis was instrumental in arousing the interest of Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King in a project to mark the sites of the boyhood homes of Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

Brigadier-General H. T. Hughes, Chief Engineer, Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission, interviewed when in Canada Feb. 27, 1927, said: "Of the eight memorials originally proposed, seven have now been completed and handed over to the Imperial War Graves Commission to maintain in perpetuity. They all take the form of a miniature park varying from two to six and a half acres, excepting Vimy Ridge, which is 225 acres. My work for this year will be concentrated entirely on the Vimy Ridge memorial. Canada's seven memorials, now completed, are located two in Belgium and five in France as follows: Passchendale, commemorating the fighting of Canadians in September and October 1917, the memorial being erected exactly on the site of the Crest Farm, where most of the severe fighting took place; Sanctuary Wood, known as Hill 62, commemorating the attack by Germans on June 2, 1916, and also the St. Eloi crater fighting earlier in the

year; Drury Cross Roads, where the Canadian forces broke the Queant-Drocourt line in 1918; Bourlon Wood, commemorating the fighting just before the capture of Cambrai; Courcellette, which commemorates the fighting in the Somme in 1916; Le Quesnel in front of Amiens, marking the 14,000 yard advance by Canadians on Aug. 8, 1918; St. Julien, commemorating the occasion on which Canadians first met with a gas attack, Apr. 23 and 25, 1915. In addition, a tablet was unveiled at St. Nazaire to commemorate the landing in February, 1915, of the first Canadian Division; and a tablet was unveiled on June 12, 1927 at the Hotel de Ville, Mons, to commemorate the last day's fighting, November 11, 1918.

At Ottawa, a Book of Remembrance, containing the names of 60,000 Canadians who lost their lives in the Great War, was placed in the Victory Tower: the altar stone on which it rests was the gift of the British Government. Vernon March of Farnborough, England, was selected to design Canada's war memorial, which was to stand 45 feet high on a base 26 by 24 feet, the cost being about $100,000, and the work to be completed by 1930. In addition, a monument to Canadian Womanhood in the War was being planned for the Victory Tower and three tablets-one for the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry-were placed in the Monastery of the Precious Blood. The most imposing War memorials unveiled were those at Regina, Nov. 11, 1926, and at Truro, Sept. 26, 1926. Other monuments unveiled on Armistice Day 1926, are located at Shaunavon, Estevan and Riverhurst, Saskatchewan; and near Brock's monument, Niagara Township, Ontario. A specially beautiful shaft was unveiled at Parrsboro, N.S., Aug. 29, 1926; and others at Port Hope, June 3; and at Preston, Nov. 8, 1926. On June 28, 1926, a memorial to the 44th Battalion was unveiled in St. James Park, Winnipeg, and on Sept. 21st a sun-dial was unveiled at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto.

The new wing of the Archives Building at Ottawa was completed in 1926; and many items of great interest and value were acquired by the Dominion Archives during the year, of which the following are representative: From Sir Robert Borden, 770 pictures, mostly photographs of war scenes; from Viscount Dillon, portrait of Charles I, attributed to Sir Peter Lely; 75 volumes of transcripts from London and Paris, including the Baring Papers from 1820 to 1870 relating to North America; Sir Charles Tupper Papers comprising 11 volumes of original correspondence; in the map and chart division, a copy of The Atlantic Neptune, in 3 vols., dated 1779, presented to the Archives by the late Earl Amherst of Montreal, Sevenoaks, England, as of outstanding importance. While in London, Dr. Arthur G. Doughty, Dominion Archivist, secured a large number of Irish documents relating to early British rule in Nova Scotia, the capture of Quebec, etc. Miss Catherine Welland Merritt, before her marriage in 1927 to Sir Henry Pellatt, presented to the Dominion Archives a trunk and contents left by General Brock at her grandfather's house the night before the Battle of Queenston Heights.

In 1926, the Vancouver Museum added some interesting Indian relics; the Provincial Archives of British Columbia acquired documents that had belonged to Governor James Douglas; McGill University was presented by Dr. and Mrs. Casey A. Wood with a copy of an Arabic-Persian manuscript on Zoology, and the McCord National Museum received from C. G. Sjolander some magnificent examples of Chippewa bead work, and from James S. Snasdell 44 British and Canadian military medals. The Toronto Women's Historical Society accepted from Miss N. Maughan two splendid guns, a powder horn and some flints, once the property of John G. Howard; and William McIntosh gave the Natural History Museum, St. John, N.B., a sextant donated to Captain Charles I. Card for heroic life-saving in June, 1863.

The Canadian Historical Association, with a membership of 450, held its Annual Meeting, May 28-30, 1927, at Baldwin House, Toronto, President G. M. Wrong in the Chair. Discussion centered mainly on the recent Imperial Conference, and the wealth of material for the historian in Canada's past. The speakers included Mr. Justice Riddell, Sir Joseph Flavelle, Rt. Rev. Archbishop McNeil, Hon. Newton Rowell, Senator N. A. Belcourt, Lawrence J. Burpee, Professors Chester Martin, W. T. Waugh, Frank H. Underhill, R. G. Trotter, Dr. J. C. Webster, Professor Duncan Cunliffe from New Zealand and Professor Hall from Australia. The following officers were elected: Dr. A. G. Doughty, President; Prof. Chester Martin, Vice-President; Executive, A. S. Morton, A. L. Burt, and W. L. Sage.

The Champlain Society, at its Annual Meeting in Toronto, Feb. 4th, 1927, reported the publication of Lawrence J. Burpee's book on La Vérendrye, and the Third Volume of Champlain's Works, and proposed to increase membership fees that books might be issued more often. President G. M. Wrong and all other officers were re-elected. The Nova Scotia Historical Society met ten times during the year to hear papers read by members, and at its Annual Meeting on Apr. 1st, 1927, elected as President, Ven. Archdeacon Vroom, and as Secretary, Major J. P. Edwards. The Ontario Historical Association, with a membership of 441, under the presidency of Fred Landon of London, held its Annual Meeting on June 14 and 15, 1927, at Toronto, and reported publication of the 4th and final volume of the Correspondence of Governor Simcoe. Under the Presidency of Mrs. W. C. Gullock, the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa enjoyed a most active year, which officially closed Mar. 29, 1927. The Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto held eight meetings, and succeeded in arranging for the renovation by the City of Howard House. The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal, at its Annual Meeting Nov. 1st, 1926, elected F. W. Harris, President, and went on record as favouring for a national flag the Union Jack with a golden maple leaf in the centre. At the Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal, the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society elected W. D. Lighthall, President, and protested against the re