"CONTENTdm"@en . "[Report on Canadian archives]"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1178335"@en . "British Columbia Historical Books Collection"@en . "Report on Canadian Archives"@en . "Public Archives of Canada"@en . "Lamb, W. Kaye (William Kaye), 1904-"@en . "2016-09-14"@en . "1953"@en . "\"Title varies: 1881-1905, Report on Canadian Archives; 1908-1912, Report of the work of the Archives Branch; 1913-1914/15, Report of the work of the Public Archives. No reports issued for 1906-1907, 1911, 1916, 1927. Also found in Canada. Parliament. Sessional Papers, 1873-1924, and in the Annual Departmental Reports, 1925-1929/30. Reports for 1872-1880 were not issued separately but included in the Reports of the Minister of Agriculture. Some reports reprint the text of newly acquired documents. 1886, 1889, 1890 and especially 1892, contain material found significant by Hume Wrong for his biography of Alexander Mackenzie (no.623); 1891 contains important documents concerning Beckwith's secret mission to the U.S.A. re Nootka; 1928 has a copy of Duncan McGiIIivray's Some account of the trade carried on by the North West Company, first published in 1811 as On the origin and progress of the North-West Company (no.421).\" -- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 47."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0314552/source.json"@en . "39 pages ; 26 cm"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " REPORT OF\nTHE PUBLIC ARCHIVES REPORT\nPUBLIC ARCHIVES\nFOR THE YEAR\n1952\nWm. kaye lamb\nDominion Archivist\nOTTAWA\nEDMOND CLOUTIER, C.M.G., O.A., D.S.P.\nPRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY\nCONTROLLER OFJSTATIONERY\n1953\nPrice, 26 cents\n78065\u00E2\u0080\u00942 Ottawa, June 30, 1953.\nTo the Honourable J. W. Pickersgill,\nSecretary of State,\nOttawa.\nSir,\u00E2\u0080\u0094I have the honour to submit herewith the Annual\nReport of the Public Archives for the year 1952.\nOnce again I am able to report that many notable additions\nhave been made to the collections. Details of these, and of the\nactivities of the various Divisions, are given in the pages\nwhich follow.\nRespectfully submitted,\nWm. Kaye Lamb,\nDominion Archivist. Report of the Public Archives for the Year 1952\nEvents of special interest were the acquisition of a further\nnotable group of post-Confederation political papers; the\narrival of substantial shipments of microfilm copies of documents\nin the Public Record Office, London, the Archives Nationales,\nParis, and the Archives of the Hudson's Bay Company;\nexpansion of the map collection; further progress in the compilation of preliminary inventories of material in the Manuscript\nDivision, and expansion of the numismatic collection. Looking\nto the future, perhaps the most interesting event was the\npreparation of plans for a large Archives Records Building at\nTunney's Pasture.\nMANUSCRIPT DIVISION\nGeneral Work of the Division\nThe reorganization of the entire manuscript collection,\nwhich was undertaken two years ago, is now nearing completion.\nAll official records of the Government of Canada in the possession\nof the Archives have been divided into \"Record Groups\". Each\nGroup is made up of the records of some convenient unit of the\nGovernment. In some instances the unit is a department, in\nothers one or more branches of a department, and in still others\nan executive office, such as that of the Governor General.\nPrivate papers, transcripts, microfilms, and other non-official\nrecords have been arranged in \"Manuscript Groups\". These\nare intended to bring together, in groups arranged chronologically, materials that are basically similar in character. To\ncite two examples: Manuscript Group No. 11 consists of copies\nof Colonial Office records preserved in the Public Record Office\nin London; Manuscript Group 19 is made up of papers relating\nto exploration, the fur trade and the Indians, during the period\n1763-1867.\nA second project which has been in progress for some time\nis the compilation and publication of preliminary inventories of\nthese Record Groups and Manuscript Groups. The Public\nArchives has been printing selections of documents, calendars,\nguides and lists for many years, but these have only described\na fraction of the material in the department's keeping. An PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nattempt is being made in the new inventories to give a concise,\nconsistent description of everything available, arranged in such !\na way that scholars working at a distance from Ottawa may\ngain a fairly definite idea of the nature and extent of any file,\nand of the precise period to which it relates-. The completed\nseries will probably consist of about fifty inventories. Of these\nfive have now been published, and seven others will soon be\nready for the press.\nA great amount of work has also been done on individual j\ncollections during the year. The long task of sorting and\nindexing the Laurier Papers is now well advanced and will\ncertainly be completed in 1953. The Borden Papers were\ncarefully checked throughout, and when it was certain that\nthey were all in proper order the pages were numbered and the\npapers themselves transferred to new filing cases. Some idea\nof the amount of work involved in this seemingly simple\noperation will be apparent from the fact that the checking,\nnumbering and filing required the time of two skilled archivists\nand a clerical assistant for more than three months.\nIt has been necessary each year to state in the annual\nreport that owing to lack of space very few departmental\nrecords could be transferred to the Archives. The Department\nhas long been eager to function as a full-fledged public record\noffice, and the need for such a service is immediate and pressing.\nHappily there is every prospect that adequate accommodation\nfor public records will be available in the relatively near future.\nA special building is to be erected in Tunney's Pasture, and a\nfirst appropriation towards its cost is included in the budget of\nthe Department of Public Works for the year 1953-1954.\nAlthough stackrooms and storage space will naturally take up\nmost of the building, adequate sorting rooms and search rooms j\nare included in the design. Departmental officials and research\nworkers will thus be able to consult files at any time in comfortable, convenient quarters.\nPost-Confederation Political Papers\nThe department's collection of private political papers\nrelating to the years since Confederation continues to grow in\na most satisfactory way. Many notable additions were received\nin 1952, including the papers of two prime ministers.\nThe Borden Papers, presented by Mr. Henry Borden,\nnephew of Sir Robert Borden, are undoubtedly one of the most REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 7\nimportant collections of Canadian political papers in existence.\nSir Robert was Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920, a\nperiod which included the first World War and the negotiations\nwhich led to the Treaty of Versailles. His papers consist of\nwell over 200,000 pages, and the principal issues and events of\nhis career are fully documented. The papers for the period to\n1921 came to the Archives in the order in which they had been\narranged when Sir Robert was preparing his memoirs. As\nguides and indexes are available, they have been left in this\norder. Later correspondence (1921-1937) is in a separate series\nof files, arranged alphabetically by the name of the correspondent. Mr. Henry Borden's gift is to include Sir Robert's\npersonal diaries, but these will be sent to the Archives at a\nlater date.\nThe Abbott Papers consist of some of the files accumulated\nby Sir John J. C. Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada in 1891-\n1892. They were found amongst a large collection of \"dormant\"\nfiles transferred to the Archives from the Privy Council Office.\nSir John Thompson, who succeeded Abbott as Prime Minister,\nand whose own papers were acquired by the Archives in 1949,\nevidently asked Abbott to send him the papers for his guidance.\nAfter Thompson's sudden death in England in 1894 they seem\nto have been pushed to one side and eventually lost sight of.\nThey consist of seven volumes, all relating to the period when\nAbbott was Prime Minister except one, which contains material\non the proposed steamship service between Canada and\nAustralia, 1884-1890.\nAssuming that Mr. Mackenzie King's papers will eventually\nbecome the property of the nation, the department is now in\nthe happy position of being assured of possession of the major\nportion of the known papers of every prime minister since\nConfederation with the exception of Lord Bennett, whose\nextensive files are in the Library of the University of New\nBrunswick, in Fredericton.\nOther post-Confederation papers received included the\n| following:\nAberdeen Papers. These consist of the journals, correspondence and scrap-books of the Hon. Ishbel Maria\nMarjoribanks, Marchioness of Aberdeen, whose\nhusband, the first Marquess, was Governor General\nof Canada in 1893-1898. While in Canada Lady\nAberdeen was instrumental in founding both the PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nNational Council of Women and the Victorian Order\nof Nurses. Her interesting journals, which fill six\nvolumes, cover the years 1890-1891 and 1893-1899,\nand give a running account of political and social\nevents of the time. The correspondence is in great\npart personal and social, and includes letters from\nfive prime ministers of Canada. The Papers were\ndeposited in the Archives by Lady Aberdeen's daughter,\nMarjorie, Lady Pentland.\nBelcourt-Sissons Correspondence. A first instalment of this\ncorrespondence was described in the Report for 1951.\nThe letters were addressed to Prof. C. B. Sissons, of\nVictoria University, Toronto, by the late Senator\nN. A. Belcourt, of Ottawa. Dr. Sissons has now added\n46 letters to the file. They were written between\nSeptember, 1920, and January, 1928.\nDandurand Reminiscences. Before his death in 1942,\nSenator Raoul Dandurand had completed the manuscript of this extensive account of his long and distinguished career. Appointed to the Senate in 1898, he\nwas Speaker from 1905 to 1909, and Minister without\nPortfolio in the King administrations of 1921, 1926\nand 1935. He several times represented Canada at\nthe League of Nations and was elected President of the\nAssembly in 1925. The Reminiscences were received\nthrough the good offices of Mr. de Gasp\u00C3\u00A9 Beaubien,\nof Montreal. Pending a decision as to publication, no\nquotations may be made from the manuscript.\nGibbons Papers. Sir George Christie Gibbons, K.C (1848-\n1918), was appointed Chairman of the Canadian\nSection of the International Waterways Commission\nin 1905. He took a leading part in the negotiations\nwhich led to the Boundary Waters Treaty between the\nUnited States and Canada in 1909. One result of\nthis treaty was the establishment of the present\nInternational Joint Commission. The Papers, which\nfill 22 portfolios, were presented by Mr. Alan Gibbons,\nof Ottawa, grandson of Sir George Gibbons.\nGood Papers. Mr. W. C Good, of Paris, Ontario, farmer\nand politician, was for many years a leading representative of farm interests in both politics and the\nco-operative movement. He was an active worker for ! REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 9\nthe United Farmers of Ontario, represented Brant in\nthe House of Commons in 1921-1925, and served as\nPresident of the Co-operative Union of Canada. In 1952\nMr. Good presented the major portion of his extensive\nand valuable personal papers to the Archives. The\nremainder of the collection will be added at a later date.\nHudson Papers. The late Hon. A. B. Hudson, K.C, sat\nin the Manitoba Legislature in 1914-1920, and was\nelected to the House of Commons in 1921. In 1936\nhe was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.\nA Liberal in politics, he played an important part in\nthe negotiations between the Liberal Party and the\nProgressives in the mid-1920's. This small but valuable collection of his papers was presented by Mrs.\nHudson.\nMackintosh Papers. The main body of the papers of the\nlate Charles H. Mackintosh, Lieutenant-Governor of\nthe Northwest Territories from 1893 to 1898, were\nunfortunately destroyed when his home in Ottawa\nwas burned many years ago. Only a few documents\nsurvive, but the department was glad to receive these\nthrough Mr. Mackintosh's granddaughter, Mrs. John\nBrome, of Prescott.\nMorrison Memoirs. In 1915 James J. Morrison (1861-1936)\norganized and became secretary-treasurer of the United\nFarmers of Ontario. When the United Farmers won\nthe provincial election of 1919, he was invited to form\na government, but declined and advised the Lieutenant-\nGovernor to send for Mr. E. C Drury, who thereupon\nbecame Premier. Mr. Morrison's memoirs, 117 typewritten pages in length, were presented to the Archives\nby his son, Mr. C A. Morrison, of Toronto, whose\npermission must be secured before the manuscript can\nbe consulted.\nJohnston Papers. (Microfilm copy, 4 reels.) Alexander\nJohnston, C.M.G. (1867-1951), was Deputy Minister\nof Marine from 1910 to 1932. An outstanding public\nservant, he knew all the leading political figures of the\ntime. At the request of Mrs. Johnston the Archives\nchecked and arranged the papers, and by her kind\npermission they were microfilmed before they were\npresented to St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish. 10 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nThe collection consists of general correspondence files;\npapers relating to the Nova Scotia Royal Commission,\nProvincial Economic Inquiry, 1934, of which Mr.\nJohnston was a member; documents relating to\ncensorship in the early years of the second World War ;\nand a personal diary covering the period 1933-1939.\nFour letters in the handwriting of Sir John A. Macdonald\nwere presented by Mrs. H. J. Cody, of Toronto, and added to\nthe great store of Macdonald material already in the Archives.\nAn interesting gift was received from Dr. W. W. Lynch, of\nSherbrooke, in the form of copies of three letters exchanged by\nthe Hon. J. A. Chapleau and the donor's father, W. W. Lynch\n(later Judge Lynch), in November, 1885, at the time of the\nexecution of Louis Riel.\nEarlier Political Papers\nImportant accessions included the C. H. Graham Papers,\npresented by Mrs. Elsie Graham McDonald, of St. Petersburgh,\nFlorida, in memory of C H. Sumner, of Ingersol, Ontario. They\nconsist of letters addressed to C H. Graham, and two addressed\nto Dr. James Graham. With a single exception the correspondence is dated within the period 1837-1839, and relates to\nthe troubled political events of the time. The collection, which\nconsists in all of 116 pages, includes letters from David Gibson,\nDr. A. K. McKenzie, William Lyon Mackenzie, Dr. T. D.\nMorrison, Dr. John Rolph, Mrs. Rolph, T. J. Paterson, William\nLeslie and Francis Hincks.\nOther papers acquired included two letters from Thomas\nD'Arcy McGee written in June, 1866.\n\"Projet\" of Baron de Lahontan\nA gift of quite exceptional interest was presented to the\nArchives by Mr. W. A. Mather, President of the Canadian\nPacific Railway. It consists of a 28-page manuscript in the\nhandwriting of the famous Baron de Lahontan and is entitled\nProjet d'un Fort Anglois dans le Lac Erri\u00C3\u00A9. It is of particular\ninterest because the Archives already possessed two companion\npieces. One of these, entitled Abr\u00C3\u00A9g\u00C3\u00A9 Instructif des affaires du\nCanada, was presented to the department by Lady Oakes in\n1940. The other, Ebauche d'un projet pour enlever Kebec et\nPlaisance, was included in the Northcliffe Collection, which was\ngiven to the Public Archives by Sir Leicester Harmsworth in REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 11\n1923. All three documents are believed to have been drafted in\n1696, and all relate to the time when Lahontan was at outs with\nthe French authorities, and was ready to offer his advice and\nservices to the British. The manuscript in the Oakes Collection\ngives a general account of New France. The Northcliffe item\nsuggests ways and means of capturing Quebec and Placentia.\nThe new acquisition advises the British to establish a fort near\nNiagara, on Lake Erie. This would command the overland\nroutes between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and thereby check\nFrench expansion both westward and southward towards\nthe Mississippi.\nAll three manuscripts were at one time part of the fabulous\ncollection assembled by Sir Thomas Phillips, and it is a happy\ncircumstance that, after being separated for many years, they\nhave once again found a new and permanent home under\none roof.\nBy an interesting coincidence the Archives also received\nfrom the William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan,\na photostatic copy of a fourth Lahontan document which seems\nto belong with the other three. It is entitled Brief Discours\nqui montre en substance Combien il seroit important de r\u00C3\u00A9ussir\ndans deux entreprises propos\u00C3\u00A9es et contenues en ce m\u00C3\u00A9moire. The\ntwo \"entreprises\" suggested were the seizure of Port Royal, in\nAcadia, by the British, and the establishment of trade relations\nbetween the British and the Indian allies of New France in the\nLake Ontario-Lake Erie region. Had Lahontan's projects been\ncarried out, they would certainly have spelled the doom of\nFrench rule in what is now Canada.\nMilitary Manuscripts\nA number of papers of military interest were received\nduring the year. The earliest in date is a letter written by\nJames Wolfe; the most recent came from the pen of Viscount\nAlexander of Tunis almost two centuries after Wolfe's death.\nThe letter from Wolfe was addressed to Captain Parr of\nthe 67th Regiment on January 24, 1758, shortly after Wolfe\nlearned that he was to play a part in the next campaign in\nNorth America. It reads in part as follows: \"You have heard\nby this of our sudden Orders for North America of which I was\napprized at Exeter a fortnight ago & covered the distance pretty\nfast (170 miles in 20 Hours) stumbling in the darkness over\nSalisbury Plain. We won't speak of rewards for this heroick 12 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nachievement: but yesterday I was commissioned Brigadier\nunder Genl Amherst & our Squadron expects to sail in about a\nweek. My time of American Service is uncertain, depending\non our success . . . .\" It is more friendly and informal than\nmost of Wolfe's letters and is signed: \"Ever, my dear Parr,\nYours Affectionately, James Wolfe.\"\nA brief autograph letter written by Guy Carleton and dated\n\"Camp before Quebec July 21st 1759\" was added to the collections. A photostatic copy of a letter from Carleton to Lord\nNorth, dated at Quebec, May 24, 1777, and giving his views on\nvarious current questions, was received from the Public Record\nOffice, London, where the original was discovered. in Treasury\nfiles of the time.\nThe Archives has acquired a memorandum book kept by\nLieut. Gilbert Purdy, who enlisted on March 15, 1777, and took\npart later the same year in the Danbury raid and the Battle of\nBrandywine. His notes give a running commentary on the\nevents of the year, with random jottings which extend into\nJanuary, 1778. Purdy settled at Maligash Point in Ramsheg\nTownship, Nova Scotia.\nThe John Crysler Papers, presented by Mr. W. F. Hilliard,\nof Ottawa, include the orderly book of the first regiment of the\nDundas Militia for the years 1822-1850. A number of pay lists\nand muster rolls are amongst the loose papers included in\nthe collection.\nLetters and papers of Lieut.-Col. Simon Fraser, consisting\nin all of 38 pages and relating to the Grenville County Militia\nand the Kemptville Drill Association in the 1860's, were\npresented by Mr. F. C. Etherington, of Toronto.\nThirteen letters written by Lieut.-Col. R. E. C. Jarvis to\nmembers of his family while he was on active service with the\n67th Regiment were presented by Col. C. P. Meredith, of\nOttawa. Eleven of these relate to the war in Afghanistan,\n1879-1880. The other two are earlier in date: one was written\nfrom Canton, China, in 1860; the other in 1871, after the writer\nhad returned from service with an ambulance corps during the\nFranco-Prussian War.\nThrough Mr. G. H. Carter, of Freeman, Ontario, the\nArchives received an interesting letter addressed by Major-\nGeneral Sir Frederick Middleton to Big Bear on June 2, 1885,\nin the closing days of the Northwest Rebellion. In this note,\nwhich is written in pencil, the General informed Big Bear that REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 13\nhaving \"utterly defeated Riel, at Batoche with great loss\" and\n\"made Prisoners of Riel, Poundmaker, and his principal chiefs,\"\nhe now called upon Big Bear himself to surrender, with his\nchiefs and prisoners.\nWhen Field Marshall the Rt. Hon. the Viscount Alexander\nof Tunis was on the point of leaving Canada, the Archives\nreceived from him a notable parting gift in the form of a copy\nof the Memoirs in which Lord Alexander describes his campaigns\nof 1942-1944 in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. The narrative\nconsists of seven mimeographed volumes.\nOther Manuscripts Received\nIt will be recalled that in 1950 the Archives purchased the\nwell-known Hargrave Collection, which consists of a great\nmass of correspondence relating to the fur trade and the\nHudson's Bay Company assembled by Chief Factor James\nHargrave. To this there has now been added a second collection, known as the Hargrave-Mactavish Papers. Although they\ninclude only a few references to James, Joseph or Letitia\nHargrave, they have been so designated because their interest\nfor Canadians lies in the fact that most of the 2500 documents\nrelate directly or indirectly to members of Letitia (Mactavish)\nHargrave's family. Letitia Hargrave, it will be remembered,\nwas the writer of the Letters published in 1947 by the Champlain\nSociety. There are many papers relating to Lachlan Mactavish,\nLetitia's grandfather, and to her father, Dugald Mactavish.\nThe bulk of the papers belong to the period 1750-1850, but there\nare a few earlier items, including a document relating to\nDunardry, the Mactavish family seat, dated 1548.\nSixty documents relating to the Reynolds, Freligh and Van\nVleet families of Mississquoi County, Quebec, were given to the\nArchives by Miss Bernice Reynolds, of Ottawa. The family\nconnections are shown in the marriage certificates of Abraham\nFreligh and Charity Van Vleet (1775), and of Benjamin\nReynolds and Polly Freligh (1805). The papers consist of\ndeeds, commissions, receipts, etc., and to these Miss Reynolds\nhas added genealogical tables of the Reynolds and Van Vleet\nfamilies.\nFor some years past the Archives has had an agreement\nwith the Department of Resources and Development regarding\nthe disposition of any documents which may be found in old\ncairns discovered in the far north. In accordance with this\n78065-^ 14 PULIC ARCHIVES\nagreement the Archives received in 1952 two interesting items\nrelating to the Franklin search expedition of 1850-1851. The\nfirst is a pencil message written by W. B. Shellabear, Second\nMaster of H.M.S. Intrepid, dated August 29, 1850, and left in\na bottle at Barlow Inlet. The second message, signed by Sir\nJohn Ross, was written on August 12, 1851, and buried in a\ncairn at Prospect Hill, near Assistance Bay. Both were found\nby R. Thorsteinson of the Geological Survey of Canada in\nJuly, 1952.\nMr. R. W. Shepherd, of Como, Quebec, kindly permitted\nthe Archives to make a photostatic copy of the Personal History,\n1819-1860, written by his father, the late R. W. Shepherd, Sr.,\nwho came to Canada as a boy in 1830 and died in 1895. Amongst\nother things he was associated with early steamboat services on\nthe Ottawa River.\nMr. Raleigh Parkin, of Montreal, has given the Archives\nthe manuscript of the first press message ever sent across the\nAtlantic Ocean by wireless telegraph. This message was sent\nfrom Newfoundland by Mr. Parkin's father, Dr. George (later\nSir George) Parkin, to The Times on December 21, 1902. To\nguard against the possibility of fraud, Dr. Parkin drafted his\nmessage in such a way that an extra word could be added just\nbefore it was handed to the operator for transmission. This\nextra word was duly received in London, thereby proving that\ntrans-ocean communication by wireless had indeed become\na reality.\nSeveral items relating to the history of Canadian railways\nwere received. These included an historical sketch of the\nCanada Southern Railway, 1831-1903, by A. D. R. Fraser.\nFrom Scotland Miss Heather Donald sent to the Archives the\nRecollections of a sojourn in Canada from 1886-1889 written in\nthe latter year by James Gordon, of Lumphanan. Gordon\nworked on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway in\nBritish Columbia, and w^as later employed by farmers and\ncontractors in Ontario. This brief account of his experiences\nthrows interesting light on working conditions at the time.\nMrs. William Hendrie presented a copy of an address\nentitled A Trip to the Pacific Ocean by the Canadian Pacific\nRailway in 1888 delivered by her father, the late Adam Brown,\nwho represented Hamilton in the House of Commons from 1887\nto 1891. A very different account of a journey over some of\nthe same ground is given in the Recollections of the Tour of REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952\nPrincess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Alberta, 1951 by Mrs,\nPrudham, whose husband, the Hon. George Prudham, was\nofficial host on the royal train between Swift Current and Banff.\nTwo volumes of transcripts which have been in the\npossession of the Library of Parliament for many years were\ntransferred to the Public Archives. One large volume, entitled\nDocuments Historiques, 1611-1776, consists of copies of documents in France which were made by Father P. Martin about\n1853. The other, entitled Celeron de Blainville, 1749, is a copy\nof a journal kept by Celeron when sent to Belle-Rivi\u00C3\u00A8re by the\nMarquis de la Gallisonni\u00C3\u00A8re, in 1749.\nDepartmental Records Received\nTransfers of departmental records had to be kept to a\nminimum owing to lack of stackroom space. The chief items\nreceived were the following:\nDepartment of Public Works. Files for the period 1860-\n1879, relating to the construction of canals and public\nbuildings. The papers include a great number of\npurely routine records which can be sorted out and\ndiscarded. As received, the files occupy 300 feet of\nshelving.\nDepartment of Transport\nCanals Branch files, 1879-1899. These files, which\noccupy 90 feet of shelving, date back to the old\nDepartment of Railways and Canals, which was\nset up in 1879. Like the Public Works files, they\ninclude much routine material that can be\neliminated.\nShipping Registers. The following were added to the\nlarge collection already in the Archives; all are\nfirst registers: (413) Port Hawkesbury, N.S., 1894-\n1937; (414) Victoria, B.C., 1881-1892; (417)\nVictoria, B.C., 1897-1908; (415) Chatham, N.B.,\n1899-1907; (416) Sydney, N.S., 1906-1932.\nQuebec Bridge and Railway Company Records.\nOrganized in 1887 as a private corporation, this\ncompany attempted to bridge the St. Lawrence\nRiver above Quebec City. The structure collapsed in 1907, and the project was then taken\nover by the Government of Canada and placed\n78065\u00E2\u0080\u009441 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nunder the supervision of the Department of\nRailways and Canals. The records consist of\nminute books, correspondence, stock certificates,\netc.\nDepartment of Mines and Technical Surveys\nSurveyor General, Letter Books, 1881-1915. This\nextensive record of outward correspondence over\na period of 34 years was carefully screened, purely\nroutine papers were eliminated, and the letters of\npermanent interest filed in portfolios.\nRoyal Commission on National Development in the Arts,\nLetters and Sciences, 1949-1951. With the exception\nof confidential correspondence and financial papers,\nthe records of this Commission (popularly known as\nthe Massey Commission) have been transferred to\nthe Archives.\nSecretary of State\nCustodian of Enemy Property. Files relating to the\ndischarge of internees in the first World War were\nreceived. Certificates have been arranged in alphabetical order.\nMicrofilms from the Archives of the Hudson's Bay Company\nExcellent progress has been made in the important work\nof microfilming the Archives of the Hudson's Bay Company\ncovering the two centuries 1670 to 1870. The project will\nprobably be completed by the spring of 1954. It will be recalled\nthat the microfilming is being done by the Company itself, with\nthe assistance of an extra camera and operator furnished by the\nPublic Archives of Canada. The master negatives are sent to\nthis continent to be placed in a vault for safekeeping, and before\nthey go into storage the Archives is permitted to make a positive\nprint, which is kept in Ottawra. Use of the positive copies is\ngoverned by the same regulations that apply to use of the\noriginal documents in London, and applications for permission\nto consult them should be sent direct to The Secretary, Hudson's\nBay Company, Beaver House, Great Trinity Lane, London,\nE.C.4, England. The text of the Company's regulations was\nprinted as an appendix to the Report of the Archives for 1951.\nCopies may be obtained from the Company or from the Archives. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 17\nA total of 508 reels of film had been received in Ottawa by\nthe end of 1952. Of these 368 consisted of facsimiles of part of\nclass \"A\", which is composed of the records of the London\noffice of the Hudson's Bay Company. The remaining 140 reels\ncontained a complete copy of class \"C\", consisting of ships' logs,\nships' books, and a few miscellaneous papers. For the convenience of scholars a brief indication of the nature of the\nprincipal documents microfilmed to date is given below.\nDetailed catalogues will be available at a later date.\nClass \"A\"\nMinute Books, 1671-1870.\nLondon Agenda Books, 1816-1871.\nLondon Correspondence Books\u00E2\u0080\u0094Outward:\nGeneral Series, 1753-1871.\nH.B.C. Official, 1679-1870.\nLondon Locked Private Letter Books, 1823-1875.\nLondon Correspondence with Government Departments\n(Colonial Office, Foreign Office, Admiralty, War Office,\netc.), 1813-1882/83.\nLondon Inward Correspondence:\nGeneral, 1712-1870.\nFrom H.B.C. Posts (arranged by posts; dates vary;\nearliest letters are 1701; mostly 19th century).\nFrom Governors of H.B.C. Territories:\nSir George Simpson, 1823-1860.\nEden Colvile, 1849-1852.\nWilliam Mactavish, 1860-1870.\nA. G. Dallas, 1862-1865.\nLondon Correspondence between H.B.C. and H.M.\nGovernment, 1683-1870.\nGrand Ledgers, 1667-1872.\nGrand Journals, 1676-1872.\nOfficers' and Servants' Ledgers, Account Books, etc.\n(arranged in part by post; earliest entry 1719).\nLedger and Journal of H.B.C Foreign Correspondents,\n1694-1706.\nCash Books, 1794-1877.\nInvoice Books of Shipments to Hudson Bay, 1684-1832. 18 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nClass \"C\"\nOf the 140 reels in this series, 131 are composed of copies\nof ships' logs. The series extends in date from 1751 to 1871.\nThis remarkable collection is arranged alphabetically, by the\nname of the vessel, and includes logs of a large number of voyages\nboth from Great Britain to Hudson Bay, and from London to\nFort Vancouver and Fort Victoria.\nThe remaining nine reels consist of copies of seamen's\nwages books (1726-1806), and a collection of ships' books, and\nmiscellaneous papers. The majority of these are again arranged\nalphabetically, by the name of the ship to which they refer.\nMicrofilms and Transcripts from the Public Record Office, London\nThe major project undertaken in 1952 was the microfilming\nof the first part of series CO. 42. This is probably the most\nimportant single file of documents in the Public Record Office\nrelating to Canada, and includes the correspondence exchanged\nbetween the various Governors and the Colonial Office. The\ntext of many of the papers in CO. 42 is to be found in the\nextensive set of transcripts in the Public Archives known as\nseries \"Q\", but these transcripts were made many years ago,\nwhen it was not permissible to copy the minutes, notes, etc.,\nwhich had been added to many of the documents by officials in\nLondon. These annotations are frequently most valuable and\nrevealing, and it is important that they should be readily\navailable to Canadian scholars. The transcripts in series \"Q\"\nextend only as far as 1840-1841. It is proposed to carry the\nmicrofilming forward to 1867 as rapidly as possible, and\neventually to photograph series CO. 42 down to 1900.\nA second series of great interest is CO. 194, the major file\nin the Public Record Office relating to Newfoundland. Only a\nfew volumes have been microfilmed as yet, but the intention is\nto copy it complete from the beginning to 1900.\nMicrofilms received in 1952 included the following:\nCO. 42, Vols. 1-132. These contain papers relating to the\nold Province of Quebec, 1760-1791, and to Lower\nCanada, 1791-1807. Vols. 24-132 of CO. 42 correspond roughly to vols. 1-102 of series \"Q\". The latter\nare analyzed in Parker's Guide to the Documents in\nthe Manuscript Room at the Public Archives of Canada,\npp. 100-114. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 19\nCO. 194, Vols. 5-26. Newfoundland. Vols. 1-21 consist\nof original correspondence of the Board of Trade,\n1696-1793; vols. 22-26 of original correspondence of\nthe Secretary of State, 1702-1765.\nCO. 305, Vols. 1-30 (complete). Vancouver Island. Incoming correspondence with minutes, memoranda, and\ndraft replies, 1846-1866.\nCO. 410, Vols. 1-2 (complete). Vancouver Island. Entry\nbooks, 1849-1867.\nMicrofilming has now almost entirely taken the place of\ncopying in longhand, but a transcript of W.O. 1, Vol. 559, which\nhad been begun some time ago, was completed and received\nin Ottawa.\nMicrofilms and Transcripts from Paris\nGood progress has been made with the microfilming of the\ndocuments in the great \"C\" series of the Archives des Colonies.\nCopying completed included the following:\nC^A, Vols. 13-126. Canada, General Correspondence,\n1694-1784. These volumes complete the series. An\nanalysis of vols. 1-122 will be found in Parker's Guide,\npp. 227-238.\nC^B, Vols. 4-38. Ile Royale, General Correspondence,\n1712-1762. The series has now been copied complete.\nFor an analysis see Parker's Guide, pp. 241-245.\nF3, Vols. 2-5. Collection Moreau St-M\u00C3\u00A9ry. The principal\ncontents are indicated in Parker, pp. 249-250.\nAs series \"E\", which contains a great store of miscellaneous\npapers relating to personnel, is not suitable for microfilming,\nthe files of persons of interest to Canada are being copied by\nhand as opportunity offers. Excerpts from vols. 23-33 were\nreceived during the year.\nFour important items were copied for the Archives in the\nBiblioth\u00C3\u00A8que Nationale. They were as follows :\nMargry\nCollection\nVol\n. 9273. (Microfilm) This\nvolume\ncontains a\ncollection of \"memoirs\"\nrelating\nto Canada,\nincluding one by Bougainville entitled \"M\u00C3\u00A9moire\nsur l'\u00C3\u00A9tat de la Nouvelle France, \u00C3\u00A0 1\n\u00C3\u00A9poque de la\nguerre de sept ans\". 20 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nVol. 9281. (Transcript) Miscellaneous documents\nrelating to the Sieur de Monts, Marc Lescarbot,\nthe Marquis de Biencourt, La Tour, Champigny\nand others, 1603-1749.\nVol. 9381. (Microfilm) Amongst other papers this\nvolume includes the correspondence which passed\nbetween Pierre Margry and the historian Francis\nParkman.\nFonds Fran\u00C3\u00A7ais, Vol. 15,987. (Microfilm and transcript)\nThe documents in this volume date from 1613-1614\nand consist mostly of letters from the French\nAmbassador in London, and other French agents,\nregarding alleged attacks by the British on French\nships and fishermen on the coasts of Canada and\nGreenland. As the handwriting is very difficult to\ndecipher, a transcript was secured for the convenience\nof scholars as well as the microfilm.\nMicrofilms from Other Sources\nThree notable items should be listed under this heading:\nMassachusetts Archives, Vols. 23-24. Through the courtesy\nof the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the\nArchives was able to secure a microfilm of these volumes, which\ncontain documents of the period 1755-1780 relating to the\nFrench Neutrals.\nRoyal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. The\nearly records of the Royal Institution, which are preserved at\nMcGill University, were microfilmed in 1952, and the Archives\npurchased a positive print. Reel 1 consists of copies of letter\nbooks for the period 1820-1855; reels 2-8 are copies of inward\nletters, etc., 1820 to 1849.\nAmerican Fur Company Papers. A second instalment of\nthe microfilm copies of the papers in the collections of the New\nYork Historical Society was received. The ten reels contain\nbusiness papers of the period 1834-1847, and include the material\nlisted under Nos. 16,404 to 16,485 in the calendar printed some\nyears ago by the American Historical Association.\nPrecautionary Microfilming of Key Files\nWork on this project continues, but progress has been\nrelatively slow owing to the necessity of using the camera from\ntime to time for other work. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 21\nThe chief item microfilmed in 1952 was series G 1. This\nis one of the most valuable sets of documents in the Archives,\nfor it includes the despatches from the Colonial Office to the\nGovernors of Quebec, 1784-1790, the Governors of Canada,\n1791-1909, and to the Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada,\n1796-1841. It consists of 436 volumes, which were microfilmed\non 107 reels of film.\nMAP DIVISION\nThe Map Division had an exceptionally busy year. The\nnumber of enquiries considered of sufficient importance to be\nnoted in the register was 459. In 1951 the number was 336,\nand in 1950 only 234. Some of the questions could be answered\nreadily in a few moments; others entailed long and careful\nresearch.\nAgain many requests were received from teachers and\nothers for copies of maps with which to illustrate courses in\nhistory, geography and economics. Other sets of maps were\nassembled for use as book illustrations, and as source material\nfor films and filmstrips. It is clear that the demand for service\nof this kind is growing rapidly, and a record of many of the\nmaps supplied is now being kept in order to ascertain whether\nit follows any definite pattern. If it does, the Division may\nbe able to prepare standard ready-made sets of maps which\nwd^d fill many needs and save a considerable amount of\nstaff time.\nThe Division has devoted much time and effort to the\nhistorical section of the new Atlas of Canada which is now being\nprepared by the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys.\nPresent plans call for the following: 30 reproductions of early\nmaps illustrating the changes in the conception of Canada's\ncoastline and water systems; four larger maps showing routes\nof explorers and the trade routes in common use at different\nperiods; four more, showing the gradual extension of geographical\nknowledge of different parts of the country, and 21 smaller maps\nshowing changes in Canada's external and internal boundaries.\nIt is felt that when the new Atlas appears, the historical section\nwill bear comparison both in material and technique with anything of the kind published heretofore.\nA display illustrating the history of the charting of Halifax\nHarbour was prepared for the annual meeting of the Canadian\nInstitute of Surveying. Several talks on the character of the 22 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\ncollections, the system of map filing used, etc., and on early\ngeographical conceptions were given to groups who visited the\nArchives, and all were received with enthusiasm. It is clear\nthat latent popular interest in maps is much greater than is\ngenerally supposed.\nThe Division's major project continues to be the compilation of two large-scale catalogues, one devoted to 16th-\ncentury maps relating to the area now comprising Canada, and\nthe other to maps of Acadia in the period 1600-1763. Both are\nwell advanced, but both have been delayed by the volume of\ngeneral reference work which must now be dealt with. One\nmust also reckon with the dynamic nature of the projects themselves. The catalogue of 16th-century maps, for example, has\ngrown out of all recognition since it was first planned. The initial\nintention was to produce a check list of maps which were\nrepresented in the Public Archives by originals or copies. To this\nwas soon added a plan for explanatory notes which would place\nthe individual maps in some perspective. This perspective would\nobviously be improved if the collection included representations\nof all significant 16th-century maps, and the temptation to try\nto acquire these soon became irresistible. Inevitably the\ncompletion of the catalogue has been much delayed, but in the\nlong view this has already been shown to be worth while. For\none thing, although the Archives still has very few original\n16th-century maps, it now has what we believe to be the best\nstudy collection of such material on the continent. For\nanother, the long-awaited catalogue of 16th-century maps\nrelating to Canada promises to be a research publication of\nmajor importance in its field, instead of the simple check list\nat first contemplated.\nAbout 1,370 maps were added to the collections during the\nyear. Many of these were of routine interest, but more maps\nof importance (originals or copies) were acquired than in any\nprevious year. The chief of these are indicated in the notes\nwhich follow.\nCopies of 16th-Century Maps\nExcellent photostats of the following have been acquired:\n1522. \"Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydographorum\nTraditionem Exactissime Depicta. 1522. L.F.\" A\nwidely-circulated map of the world by Laurentius\nFrisius, from the Serve tus edition of Ptolemy, 1535. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952\n1554.\n1562.\nManuscript map of the world, dated 1554, by the\nPortuguese Lopo Homem, now preserved in the Museo\ndegli Strumenti Antichi, in Florence. One of the\nlargest maps of the century, and the chief effort of\nthe prolific Lopo Homem.\nA beautifully engraved and very decorative map of\nNorth and South America in nine sheets, in a factitious\natlas in the Museo Civico Correr in Venice. Though\nuntitled, unsigned and undated, this could be the map\nprepared by the Venetian geographer Gastaldi to\nillustrate his pamphlet La Universale Descrittione del\nMundo, of 1562, in which he put forward the idea of\nthe Strait of Anian.\n1574.\nA two-sheet engraved map of North and South America,\nuntitled, but with a dedication signed by the Veronese\ncartographer Paolo di Forlani and dated 1574. This\nmap and the preceding one give the largest-scale and\nmost detailed representations of the Strait of Anian.\n1582? An untitled, undated manuscript of the northern\nhemisphere, marked \"S Humfray Gylbert knight his\ncharte\" and bearing the cabalistic sign of Queen\nElizabeth's astrologer, Dr. John Dee. The map was\nprobably made for Gilbert about 1582 by Dee, who\nwas geographical adviser to Gilbert, Frobisher and\nDavis, and it features the North West Passage which\nall four so ardently wished to find.\n1587. \"Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio\", by Rumold\nMercator, son of the great Gerard Mercator.\n1589. \"Maris Pacifici (quod vulg\u00C3\u00B4 Mar del Zur)\", by Abraham\nOrtelius.\n1596. \"Nova Orbis Terrarum Descriptio\", by John Blagrave,\nLondon. A world map by this noted Elizabethan\nmathematician, on a most unusual projection which\nthrows the northern hemisphere into the greatest\nprominence. Beautifully engraved by Benjamin\nWright, one of the best-known early engravers of maps.\n1598. North and South Hemispheres, each entitled \"Hemi-\nspheri\u00C3\u00BB ab Aequinoctiali Linea, ad Circul\u00C3\u00BB Poli . . . \",\nby Cornelius de Jode. Includes a good representation\nof the Strait of Anian. 24 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nThe photostats of the work of Frisius, Mercator, Ortelius\nand de Jode were part of a gift, consisting of an unusually fine\nset of photo-reproductions, presented to the Archives by Dr.\nA. E. MacDonald, of Toronto. This gift also included photostats of a map by Munster (c. 1550), a Berteli (c. 1556-1572),\ntwo maps from a Ptolemy of 1574, and a Botero of 1611 which\nis a reduction of a 16th-century Ortelius.\nA further item of kindred interest may be noted at this\npoint. Photostats acquired during the year included a copy of\nthe \"Nova Orbis Terrarum Delineatio\", by Philip Eckebrecht,\nNuremberg, 1630. This world map is projected according to\nthe calculations of Eckebrecht's friend, the famous astronomer\nJohann Kepler. It is of great interest because it gives the\nearliest known representation of Baffin's Bay, and perhaps partly\nreproduces Baffin's own lost chart.\nCopies of Maps of Acadia\nResearch for the catalogue of early maps of Acadia revealed\nthat an important collection of original manuscript maps of\nthis region had been purchased some years ago by the Henry\nE. Huntington Library and Art Gallery at San Marino, California. This consists of 22 maps, all of which date from the\nperiod of the Seven Years' War. The Huntington Library very\nkindly permitted the Archives to purchase photostatic copies for\nstudy purposes. They represent sections of the coast and\nvarious settlements and fortifications on the Nova Scotia\nmainland, Cape Breton Island, the Chignecto Isthmus, and\nNew Brunswick.\nSeveral items later in date but referring to the same general\narea were secured as well. Perhaps the most interesting of\nthese is a photostat of Lieutenant D. Campbell's manuscript plan\nof the City of Fredericton, 1785-86. This was made at the\ntime the town was being first laid out, and the town lots are all\nnumbered. The map is an interesting companion-piece to the\ncopy of the original town-lot plan of Saint John, dated 1783,\nwhich was acquired in 1951.\nDuring the year a fine collection of plans of the Halifax\nfortifications was transferred by the Department of National\nDefence to the National Parks Division and forwarded to the\nArchives of Nova Scotia and the new Citadel Museum in\nHalifax. Before shipment these were repaired, cleaned and REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 25\nmounted by the Public Archives, and photostatic copies were\nmade for the Map Division. Fifteen of the items were Royal\nEngineer plans of the Citadel, ranging in date from the 1840's\nto the 1880's, and giving much precise information on the\nfortress, which is at present being restored. Two carefully\ndrawn plans, sections and elevations of the Duke of York's\nfamous Clock Tower on Citadel Hill, showing the structure as\nit was in 1871 and 1880, were included in the collection.\nAdmiralty Hydrographie Department Collection\nIn 1950 the Hydrographie Department of the Admiralty\npublished a catalogue entitled A Summary of Selected Manuscript\nDocuments of Historic Importance preserved in the Archives of the\nDepartment. This very remarkable and historically most\ninteresting collection is arranged in groups which correspond\nto broad geographical regions. Three of these touch Canada\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe East Coast of North America, the West Coast of North\nAmerica, and Arctic Exploration. By courtesy of the Hydro-\ngraphic Department the Archives is being permitted to purchase\nphotostatic copies of all items in these three groups which are of\nCanadian interest. Many of the prints were received this year,\nand they have added numerous maps of quite unusual interest\nto our collections.\nAbout 40 maps relating to the West Coast are included.\nAmongst them are many manuscript charts prepared as a result\nof the voyages of Cook and Vancouver. Some are fair copies;\nothers are sketches. Most of them are on a larger scale, and\nare more detailed, than the published maps. Special mention\nshould be made of a very large chart entitled \"North Pacific\nocean and Behring Sea . . . with Capt. Cook's track\", 1778-\n1779. This bears a manuscript note signed by Captain Bligh,\nlater of the Bounty. Two companion charts of equal size cover\nsomewhat smaller areas.\nThe charts of the Arctic probably constitute the finest\nexisting group of maps of the far north dating from the first\nhalf of the 19th century. Most of the expeditions made in that\nperiod were carried out by personnel of the Royal Navy. As\nwith the West Coast Series, many of the charts are fair manuscript copies of detailed surveys, and are much larger than\nanything in print. Others are tracings of coastlines, etc.,\nactually made on the spot. PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nThe expeditions represented in the photostatic copies\nsecured by the Archives include the following:\nRoss's first voyage, 1818, in the ''Isabella\" and \"Alexander\".\nThe charts include a huge map in six great sheets, with inset\nviews of the coastline, compiled on a scale of about 12 miles to\nthe inch. The area covered is Davis Strait and Baffin Bay.\nParry's first voyage, 1819-1820, in the uHecla\" and \"Griper\".\nThis expedition succeeded in penetrating to Melville Island.\nOne large chart covers the passage from Lancaster Sound west\nto Melville Island in much detail. Another, on a still larger\nscale, follows the track only as far west as Cornwallis Island.\nParry's second voyage, 1821-1823, in the \"Hecla\" and \"Fury'\\nTwo charts between them cover the area from the northern end\nof Southampton Island northward to Fury and Hecla Strait.\nThe south and east coasts of Melville Peninsula are thus\nincluded.\nFranklin's first land expedition, 1819-1822. Three charts\nshow much of the route followed in considerable detail. The\nfirst extends from Cumberland House to Lake Athabaska, the\nsecond carries the route forward to the Coppermine River,\nwhile the third follows the river to its mouth and extends into\nCoronation Gulf and Bathurst Inlet.\nFranklin's second land expedition, 1825. A chart representing the route \"from Great Bear Lake to the Polar Sea\" is of\ngreat interest because it contains the first good representation\nof Great Bear Lake.\nBack's land expedition, 1833-1835. The photostats include\na copy of Back's own map which is entitled \"A Chart of the\nDiscoveries & Route of the Arctic Land Expedition, in the\nYears 1833 & 1834\". The\" area covered extends from Great\nSlave Lake to Chantrey Inlet, on the Arctic coast, by way of\nthe Back River.\nHudson's Bay Company Maps\nOf equal interest is a group of photostats of maps in the\nArchives of the Hudson's Bay Company. These date back to\nthe days of Samuel Hearne and Phillip Turnor, and represent\nthe first detailed and scientific surveys of the great river systems\nof the Canadian West between Hudson Bay and Great Slave REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 27\nLake. Negative photostatic copies of most of them were made\nyears ago for Dr. J. B. Tyrrell, when he was editing Hearne's\nand Tumor's journals for the Champlain Society. These\nnegatives are now part of the J. B. Tyrrell Papers, in the Toronto\nPublic Library, and the prints in the Archives were mostly\nmade from them, thanks to the kindness of the Library.\nSeven items are included in the collection. The earliest is\n\"A Map of part of the Inland Country to the N[ort]h W[es]t of\nPrince of Wales Fort . . . 1772\", which is actually the fair\nmanuscript copy of the map made by Hearne himself after his\nfamous Arctic journey. It was the first detailed map of the\nBarren Grounds between Fort Churchill and Great Slave Lake,\nand of the Coppermine River. The manuscript is more detailed\nthan the engraved map which was printed in Hearne's Journey.\nThe other six maps are all by Turnor. Five of them,\nprobably all dating from 1778-1780, are charts of rivers flowing\ninto Hudson Bay and James Bay, and of lakes in this region.\nThe sixth is Tumor's most ambitious and comprehensive work,\nhis \"Map of Hudson's Bay and the Rivers and Lakes between\nthe Atlantick and Pacifick Oceans\", which was completed in\n1794.\nOther Maps Received\nA number of other maps of more than routine interest were\nacquired, a few of which should be noted here.\nFrom Mr. Norman D. Clarke the Archives received a very\nclear photograph of one of the treasures of the Library of\nCongress\u00E2\u0080\u0094the anonymous manuscript map entitled \"Description du Pais des Hurons 1651\". At one time the Division\ninclined to the opinion that this was only an 18th-century copy,\nbut careful study of capital letters, numerals, etc., and comparison with other maps of known date, indicate that 1651 is a\nquite possible date. In this event it is our earliest and best\nmap of Huronia.\nThrough the kindness of Father Ren\u00C3\u00A9 Baudry, of St.\nJoseph's University, the Division was able to secure a very\nlarge and clear copy of the manuscript map in the Biblioth\u00C3\u00A8que\nNationale entitled \"La grande baye de S. laurens en la nouvelle\nfrance . . . faite par Le R. p\u00C3\u00A8re Emmanuel jumeau recollet,\nmissionaire en canada. 4 oct. 1685\". The map is a landmark\nin the cartography of the Maritime Provinces, and hitherto we\nhave had only inferior copies. 28\nPUBLIC ARCHIVES\nPurchases included plans of four Newfoundland harbours\n(Harbour Grace, Catalina, Bonavista and Bay Bulls) from the\nEnglish Pilot of 1725. The surveys were probably made by one\nGaudy about ten years before.\nAnother interesting acquisition was a plan and elevation of\nFort St. Jean on the Richelieu, dated September, 1748. The\noriginal is in the Depot des Fortifications des Colonies, Paris,\nand this copy was secured through the kindness of M. Lionel\nAudet Lapointe, of Montreal. This is the Division's best plan\nof Fort St. Jean dating back to the French period.\nThrough the courtesy of the Geographical Branch of the\nDepartment of Mines and Technical Surveys the Archives was\nable to copy the map entitled \"Carte De La partie Septentrionale\net Occidentale de l'Am\u00C3\u00A9rique d'apr\u00C3\u00A8s les relations les plus\nr\u00C3\u00A9centes dress\u00C3\u00A9s en 1764\" from S. Engel's scarce M\u00C3\u00A9moires et\nObservations G\u00C3\u00A9ographiques et Critiques sur la Situation des Pays\nSeptentrionaux (1765). This has one of the very few new\ngeographical concepts of the Canadian West produced between\nthe time of the V\u00C3\u00A9rendryes and the time of Peter Pond, and a\nmost interesting and individual one it is.\nAgain through the courtesy of M. Lionel A. Lapointe, the\nArchives secured photostatic copies of two manuscript plans\nand views of the blockhouse at Point au Fer and the stockaded\nfort on Grande Isle, Lake Champlain, by Simon Metcalfe, 1780.\nThe originals are in the Library of the Fort Ticonderoga\nMuseum.\nA photostat of \"A Sketch of the North Shore of Lake\nSuperior collected from the Journal of a Coasting Survey and\nremarks made by Lieut. Bennet of the 8th Regiment\", dated\n1794, was acquired. The document copied is a redrawing of a\nmanuscript plan in the Ontario Department of Lands. This is\none of the most detailed early surveys of this coast.\nTen sheets from an original example of P. H. Vandermaelen's\nAtlas Universel de G\u00C3\u00A9ographie (Brussels, 1827), covering the\nLaurentian Shield and west to the Rockies, were purchased.\nThough published in Belgium, these were the largest-scale maps\nof Western Canada and Northern Quebec printed up to that\ndate, with a good coverage of water systems, trading posts,\ntrails, etc., and many names.\nA map showing all lighthouses in the lower Great Lakes,\nthe Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces in 1850\nwill be of interest to those concerned with navigation and\nshipwrecks in these waters a century ago. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 29\nMr. R. B. Harkness, of Toronto, kindly arranged for the\nArchives to secure a copy of a map relating to early petroleum\ndiscoveries in Canada. The original, which is owned by Mr.\nCharles Fairbank, of Petrolia, Ontario, is entitled \"Map of\nLot 18, Con. II in Enniskillen township\". It was prepared by\nJ. H. Fairbank in 1862, and shows many of the surface wells\ndug previous to that date, and drilled wells of that year, with\nlater additions to about 1866. This is one of the very few\ndetailed early surveys of Canadian oil fields.\nFrom the Army Survey Establishments the Archives\nreceived by transfer a number of maps which illustrate various\nperiods in military map-making in Canada. A \"Map of part\nof the Eastern Townships of the Province of Quebec Executed\nby graduates of the Royal Military College of Canada under the\nsuperintendence of Captain A. H. Lee R.A. Instructor in\nTopography. 1894\" is the Division's only example of a good\nmilitary topographical map from the period between the surveys\nof the American Civil War era and the commencement, after\nthe turn of the century, of the Militia and Defence series (now\nabsorbed in the current National Topographic Series). Eight\nlarge rolls of maps prepared by the Department of Militia and\nDefence between 1903 and 1907 are probably the original\nmanuscripts from which the \"inch to the mile\" printed Militia\nand Defence maps of the early 1900's were prepared. They\ncover a good part of Western Ontario, the Ottawa region, the\nMontreal region, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. A\n1911 index map to sheets of the \"inch to the mile\" and \"half\ninch to the mile\" maps of Canada issued by Militia and Defence\nshows the coverage which the series had effected at that date.\nTwo copies were received of the very interesting \"Land-\nform\" map of Canada, produced in 1949 by Dr. Erwin Raisz\nof the Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard\nUniversity. Not only did Dr. Raisz give us his own edition of\nthe map, but the Office of the United States Quartermaster\nGeneral presented to the Archives a copy of another edition,\nlithographed by them in 1950, in rather stronger colours, which\nseems to give a clearer picture of the geographical features\nwhich have aided or checked Canada's explorers, traders\nand soldiers.\nFrom the Cartography Division of the Geological Survey\nthe Archives received a memento of the visit to Canada of\nTheir Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of\nEdinburgh. This consisted of the special map of Canada 30 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nprepared by the Division and placed in the lounge of the Royal\nTrain during the tour. This attractive production of impeccable\ndraughtsmanship is bordered with the arms of Their Royal\nHighnesses, the arms of Canada, and those of the ten Provinces,\nall illuminated.\nPICTURE DIVISION\nHistorians, teachers, authors, publishers and film producers\nall made frequent use of the resources of the Picture Division,\nand the staff, which was short-handed much of the time, had\na busy year. More enquiries than usual were received from\npersons who were engaged in making filmstrips, and many\nhundreds of pictures of all descriptions were carefully examined\nin an effort to give all possible assistance to the script writers\nand producers.\nThe Division was able to be of some assistance to the\nHakluyt Society, which is preparing a complete new edition of\nthe journals of Captain Cook. The Society is anxious to list\nall original manuscripts, drawings, etc., relating to Cook which\nare known to be in existence, and the Archives undertook to\nprepare the return for Canada. As is well known, the Picture\nDivision has in its possession some of the drawings executed by\nWebber in the course of Cook's third and last voyage.\nThe Wisconsin State Historical Society asked for assistance\nin the preparation of a study of the work of Peter Rindisbacher,\na young painter who came out to the Red River with the Swiss\nColonists in 1821 and later settled in Wisconsin. The Archives\nhas in its collections a series of forty water-colour drawings by\nRindisbacher depicting incidents of the emigration.\nInteresting acquisitions included copies of two portraits of\nColin Robertson, the fur trader, whose Correspondence Book was\npublished by the Champlain Society and the Hudson's Bay\nRecord Society in 1939. It was not known at that time that\nany likeness of Robertson existed. One of the original portraits\nis the treasured possession of Miss Francis Harman, of Toronto,\nwho is a grand-niece of Colin Robertson; the other belongs to\nMr. Haynes Challoner, also of Toronto, whose wife was another\ngrand-niece. Miss Harman's portrait is believed to be the one\nwhich Robertson himself tells us was painted in 1821 by\nGilbert Stuart Newton.\nA small water-colour dated 1859, showing the ferry house\nat Hull, immediately opposite Ottawa, and embracing both the REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 31\nQuebec and Ontario shores of the Ottawa River, was acquired.\nThe view includes one of the earliest pictures of Earnscliffe,\nwhich later became the residence of Sir John A. Macdonald.\nTwo Whitefield lithographs were added to the collections:\none of Montreal, published in 1852, was a gift from the estate of\nthe late Professor A. V. Richardson, of Lennoxville; the other,\na view of Ottawa published in 1855, was acquired by purchase.\nA lithograph in colour of the City of Saint John, New Brunswick,\nabout 1864, was presented by Mr. John North wood, of Ottawa.\nTwo etchings by Walter Raymond Duff, a Canadian etcher-\npainter, were presented by Mr. B. A. McKendry, of Britannia\nHeights, Ottawa.\nFrom the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, the Archives\nreceived photographs of twenty-ni ne original water-colour\nsketches by Cornelius Krieghoff. The originals are in a sketch\nbook recently acquired by the Museum.\nThe Division is indebted to two well-known Canadian\npainters of historical subjects for reproductions of their pictures.\nProfessor Donald C McKay, of the Nova Scotia College of Art,\nHalifax, furnished a copy of his painting \"The Landing of\nJacques Cartier at Stadacona\"; and Mr. J. D. Kelly, O.S.A.,\nof Toronto, presented a copy of his canvas entitled \"The First\nShip on Lake Erie\". A copy of Mr. Kelly's painting of\n\"Bytown\u00E2\u0080\u00941835\" was presented by the Confederation Life\nAssociation, which owns the original.\nSeveral most useful and interesting collections of photographs were received during the year. Mr. Harold Daly, Q.C,\nof Ottawa, who has spent many years gathering likenesses of\nSir John A. Macdonald, very generously donated the whole of\nhis collection to the Archives. It consists of nearly one hundred\nportraits, including a number which are exceedingly rare.\nFittingly enough, the initial use made of the Daly Collection\nwas to furnish several illustrations for the first volume of the\ndefinitive life of Macdonald upon which Professor D. G.\nCreighton is now engaged.\nA valuable photographic record of Ontario architecture of\nhistoric interest, consisting of 185 photographs with accompanying negatives and analytical index cards, was received through\nthe good offices of Colonel C P. Meredith and Mr. R. N. Watt,\nfrom the Forestry Branch of the Department~of Resources and\nDevelopment. Later Colonel Meredith added another series of 32 PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nphotographs, taken approximately thirty years ago, depicting\nvarious types of pioneer fences which were then standing,\nchiefly in the counties of Carleton and Lanark, Ontario.\nA fine collection of 240 photographs dating back to the\nKlondyke Gold Rush was purchased and added to the Klondyke\nitems already in the Archives. The pictures are mainly of\nscenes in and around Dawson City.\nA very interesting series of several hundred photographs\nrecording the progress of survey parties pressing on through\ndifficulties and varied terrain preparatory to the development\nof the Peace River District was received from the Department\nof Mines and Technical Surveys. This record covers the years\n1910 to 1913.\nSome time ago the Archives entered into an arrangement\nwith Mr. J. W. Bald, of Midland, Ontario, whereby he would\nfurnish the Archives with prints from his large collection of\nnegatives of pictures of Great Lakes shipping. Many of these\ndate back as far as seventy years. The first hundred prints\nhave been received, and it is hoped that others will follow\nshortly. Another useful collection of shipping pictures was\nreceived from the Public Relations Department of the Canadian\nPacific Railway, which kindly presented photographs of about\n40 of the Company's steamers, past and present.\nAbout one hundred photographs were added to the\nDivision's collection of portraits of Senators and Members of\nthe House of Commons. The intention is to extend this\ncollection as opportunity offers until it includes a likeness of\nevery member of both Houses from Confederation to the\npresent time.\nThree photographs taken in 1909 of the aeroplane Baddeck\nNo. 1 at Petawawa Military Camp, Ontario, were added to the\naeronautical collection. Two of these were acquired by purchase\nand show (1) Baddeck No. 1 being serviced in preparation for\nflight, and (2) the pilot and crew seated in front of the plane.at\nits hanger. The Archives was so fortunate as to receive a third\nphotograph as a gift from Mr. Frank H. Ellis, of West Vancouver,\nB.C. This shows the frail ship taking off. Other related\npictures were acquired through Mr. J. H. Parkin, of the National\nResearch Council, who made the originals available for copying.\nThe photographs include views of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell's\nexperimental kites, and of the early aeroplanes Red Wing, June\nBug and Silver Dart. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 33\nFrom Government House, through Major J. L. Malkin,\nComptroller of the Household, the Archives received autographed photographic portraits of Field Marshall the Rt. Hon.\nthe Viscount Alexander of Tunis, whose term as Governor\nGeneral was completed in 1952, and the Viscountess Alexander.\nA portrait of Sir William Smith (1728-1793), Chief Justice\nof Canada from 1786 to 1793, was made available for copying\nby Mr. A. J. H. Richardson of the Map Division. This shows\nSir William in early manhood. A collection of thirty small but\nexcellent reproductions of portraits of Britons and Americans\nof the Revolutionary period, all from original portraits by\nTrumbull, Copley, Gilbert Stuart, etc., were also presented by\nMr. Richardson.\nOther individual likenesses of special interest were a portrait\nof the late Henri Bourassa, presented by Miss Anne Bourassa, of\nMontreal; a reproduction in colour of a miniature of Lady\nAberdeen painted just before her marriage, the gift of Lady\nAberdeen's daughter, Marjorie, Lady Pentland; and two\nphotographs of Captain Arthur HowTard, given to the Archives\nby his daughter, Mrs. F. J. Buller, of Vancouver.\nMUSEUM\nA dozen items of interest were added to the Museum in the\ncourse of the year. One unusual gift was an elaborate set of\nbrass sleigh-bells which were presented many years ago by the\npeople of Montreal to Her late Royal Highness the Princess\nLouise, and her husband. It will be remembered that the\nPrincess, a daughter of Queen Victoria, married the Marquis\nof Lome and accompanied him to Canada when he served as\nGovernor General between 1878 and 1883. The set consists of\nsix large brass ornaments for harness bridles, with plumes and\nbells, and an equal number of throat plumes and smaller bells.\nA copy of a song written by Lady Dufferin, whose husband,\nLord Dufferin, was Governor General from 1872 to 1878, was\npresented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, through\nHis Excellency the Governor General of Canada. The song,\nentitled Katey's Letter, was published in Boston, and was once\nsung by Madame Parepa Rose.\nA number of items relating to Sir John A. Macdonald were\npresented to the Museum by the British High Commissioner to\nCanada. These had been gathered at Earnscliffe, wdiich was\nformerly Sir John's home, and is now the official residence of PULIC ARCHIVES\nthe High Commissioner. Another Macdonald souvenir received\nwas a large armchair which was used at one time by Sir John in\nhis office in the Parliament Buildings.\nThe Department of the Secretary of State transferred to\nthe Public Archives the chisel which was used by the Rt. Hon.\nLouis S. St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, on April 1,\n1949, to initiate the carving of the arms of Newfoundland at the\nbase of the Peace Tower, in Ottawa.\nA maple-wood model of the Wolfe-Montcalm monument at\nQuebec was received as a bequest from the late Mrs. Rachel\nC. S. Beale, of Margate, England. Mrs. Beale's grandfather,\nGeneral J. R. Anderson, commanded the Royal Horse Artillery\nin Toronto in 1870, and her great-grandfather, General W. C\nAnderson, a veteran of Waterloo, was quartered for a time in\n1829 at St. Helen's Island, near Montreal. The bequest was\nmade in memory of these Canadian associations of her family.\nA fragment of wood from the house to which General\nMontgomery was taken after he received fatal wounds in the\nattack made by the American forces on Quebec City on New\nYear's Eve, 1775, was included in a collection received from the\nLibrary of Parliament.\nA wooden potato pounder, believed to have been used in\nthe kitchen of Sir John Johnson (1742-1830), and later used in\nthe home of Mr. Isaac Johnson, was presented by Mr. and\nMrs. Johnson of Merrickville, Ontario. Sir John Johnson, son\nof the celebrated Sir William Johnson, was for many years\nSuperintendent General and Inspector of Indian Affairs.\nA beautifully executed miniature model of a Gatling gun,\nfinished in gold and silver plate, was presented by Mrs. F. J.\nBuffer, of Vancouver. The model was originally presented to\nMrs. Buller's father, the late Captain A. L. Howard, who was\nkilled in the South African War.\nFrom the Department of Public Works the Archives\nreceived the handsome cypher of His late Majesty King George\nVI which was used to surmount the wreath deposited in the\nParliament Buildings on the day of His Majesty's funeral,\nFebruary 15, 1952. The cypher was the work of the Royal\nCanadian Mint.\nThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presented two\nalbums of recordings made during the visit to Canada of Their\nRoyal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of\nEdinburgh. The first is a condensation of the commentaries in REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 35\nEnglish which were broadcast by the CB.C while the tour was\nin progress. The second contains speeches made by the\nPrincess and by the Duke of Edinburgh, together with some\naddresses presented to Their Royal Highnesses by various\nCanadian officials and dignitaries.\nNumismatics Section\nThe most notable event of the year was the transfer to the\nArchives of the large collection of coins, medals, decorations and\npaper money which has hitherto been housed in the Library of\nParliament. More than 1,700 items wTere received, and these\nadded very appreciably to the range and completeness of the\nrapidly-growing collection in the Archives. The department's\nholdings in the field of Canadian numismatics are now of real\nsignificance and in view of the number of enquiries which are\nreceived it is a great practical convenience to have a large\nportion of the material in the possession of the Government\nbrought together in one place for ready reference.\nA second important acquisition was a collection of 184 metal\nCommunion tokens formerly used in Presbyterian churches in\nCanada. This collection is one of the most complete in the\ncountry, and includes the oldest token used in Canada. This\nwas issued in Truro, Nova Scotia, and is dated 1772. It bears\nthe initials \"D.C\" which stand for Daniel Cock. Mr. Cock\nfirst came to Nova Scotia in 1770. The next year he went back\nto Scotland, and when he returned in 1772 he brought with him\na supply of Communion tokens which were used in his church.\nFrom Monsignor Ferdinand Vandry, Rector of Laval\nUniversity, the Archives received the medal issued in 1952 to\ncommemorate the centenary of the University. The medal is\nof bronze, and measures two and one-half inches in diameter.\nThe Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police\nkindly presented two unengraved samples of the R.C.M.P.\nLong Service medals.\nMrs. H. R. Booth, of Ottawa, gave the Archives the Fenian\nRaid Medal (1866) which had been awarded to her father, and\nMiss Mary A. Blyth, also of Ottawa, presented a silver badge\ngiven to her grandfather, John Blyth, Councillor of the City of\nOttawa, upon the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales\n(later King Edward VII) in 1860.\nFrom Mr. Marcel Roussin, of Ottawa, came two bills issued\nin 1838 by Barth\u00C3\u00A9lemi Joliette, founder of the City of Joliette PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nand seigneur of Laval trie. These are in a perfect state of\npreservation and are for the amount of \"Fifteen Pence\" or\n\"Trente sous\". They were issued at St. Paul de Lavaltrie.\nBarth\u00C3\u00A9lemi Joliette, who was born in 1789 and died in 1850,\nwas a noted philanthropist of the time.\nA five-dollar paper note issued by La Banque du Coll\u00C3\u00A8ge\nCommercial Masson, at Terrebonne, Quebec, was presented by\nMrs. E. H. Russell, of Ottawa.\nA Newfoundland twenty-five cent note, a good example of\nthe fractional currency issued there some years ago, was acquired\nduring the year.\nLIBRARY\nThe general condition of the Library continues to improve,\nalthough shortage of staff has been a great handicap. The\nsystematic effort which has been made to sort the contents of\nthe Library, and dispose of material which really has no place\non its shelves, is slowly producing results. Hundreds of\npamphlets have been bound, some very necessary binding\nrepairs have been attended to, and the appearance of the\ncollection does more justice to the great amount of extremely\nvaluable material which it contains.\nPlans are afoot to reorganize the newspaper collection, in\nconjunction with that in the Library of Parliament, and this\nproject should be carried through within the next year.\nAs the collection is a specialized one, the number of books\nadded in any one year is not great. Accessions totalled 637 in\n1952. A number of interesting items were included. A fine\ncopy of the rare first edition of General Wolfe's Instructions to\nYoung Officers (London, 1768), was received. Some copies of\nthe old Quebec Magazine of 1793 were acquired. Other new\ntitles were Carpon's Voyage \u00C3\u00A0 terre-Neuve (Caen, 1852), and a\ncopy of the 1860 edition of Palliser's The Solitary Hunter; or,\nSporting Adventures in the Prairies. From Princeton University\nLibrary the Archives secured a photostat copy of a A Lecture on\nthe Harper's Ferry Tragedy, by H. L. Gordon, a rare pamphlet\nprinted by John Lovell in Montreal in 1860. Through the\nkindness of Mr. Fred G. Ketcheson, of Toronto, we were also able\nto photostat a copy of the extremely rare Guide for Emigrants\nfrom the British Shores to the Woods of Canada, published in 1834\nby George Arundel Hill. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 37\nEnquiries kept the staff busy throughout the year. A list\nof some of the topics dealt with will indicate the wide variety of\nthe work these enquiries involved. The following are typical:\nResponsible government and the press; the Canadian essay\u00E2\u0080\u0094\na historical survey; the pre-Confederation civil service; the\ncontroversies of Frontenac and Bishop Laval; Vermont in the\nperiod 1760-1791; Louis Riel; Sir John Thompson; the\nRationalist movement of 1899-1911 ; early explorers of Northern\nOntario, and Upper Canada architecture, furniture and pottery.\nPUBLICATIONS DIVISION\nFive publications were issued by the Division during the\nyear. Two of these were the English and French editions of the\nReport of the Public Archives for the year 1951. A third was the\nFrench edition of the Index to the Confederation Debates of 1865,\ncompiled at McGill University by Murray A. Lapin, and edited\nand revised by J. S. Patrick, of the Publications Division.\nTwo additional titles in the Preliminary Inventory series\nwere issued. The first numbers printed in this series were\ninventories of official records of the Government of Canada,\nwhich have been organized in Record Groups. Both the new\npublications described Manuscript Groups consisting of transcripts, photostats and microfilm copies of papers in official\ndepositories in London and Paris. Fonds de manuscrits n\u00C2\u00B0 1,\nwhich is being issued in French only, is an inventory of material\nin the Archives drawn from the Archives des Colonies, in the\nArchives Nationales, Paris. Manuscript Group 11 consists of\ncopies of Colonial Office Papers in the Public Record Office in\nLondon. It is being issued in English only. Both groups\ncontain a great many documents which are of prime importance\nto students of Canadian history, and these convenient guides\nto the copies available in Ottawa will be of great assistance to\nmany people.\nParticulars of the series to date are as follows:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nPublished in 1951:\nRecord Group 10: Indian Affairs. '\nRecord Group 11: Department of Public Works, y\nRecord Group 12: Department of Transport. V /\n3S PUBLIC ARCHIVES\nPublished in 1952:\nFonds des manuscrits n\u00C2\u00B0 1: Archives Nationales, Paris:\nArchives des Colonies. /\nManuscript Group 11: Public Record Office: Colonial\nOffice Papers. /\nIn preparation:\nRecord Group 1: Executive Council.\nRecord Group 7: Governor General's Office. /\nRecord Group 19: Department of Finance. /\n, Fonds des manuscrits n\u00C2\u00B0 2: Archives de la Marine^\nFonds des manuscrits n\u00C2\u00B0 3: Archives Nationales, i\nFonds des manuscrits n\u00C2\u00B0 4: Archives de la Guerre. /\nManuscript Group 19: Fur Trade, Exploration and\nIndians, 1763-1867. \\nAll the titles listed as \"in preparation\" should be in print\nby the end of 1953.\nLAURIER HOUSE\nThe Laurier House Act (Statutes of Canada, 1951, Chap. 19)\nplaced Laurier House, formerly the residence of Sir Wilfrid\nLaurier and later for many years the home of the Rt. Hon.\nW. L. Mackenzie King, under the control of the Dominion\nArchivist.\nThe building has been open to the public as a museum since\nAugust 1, 1951. Although some rearrangement of the rooms\nand their contents was essential in the interests of safety, an\neffort has been made to disturb the interior as little as possible.\nThe four most interesting rooms in the house\u00E2\u0080\u0094the drawing\nroom, the dining room, the second-floor bedroom used by both\nSir Wilfrid Laurier and Mr. King, and the third-floor study\nwhich Mr. King himself added and used daily\u00E2\u0080\u0094are virtually\nunchanged.\nNo actual count of visitors is kept, but at least 26,000\npersons visited Laurier House during the first year it was open\nto the public. Interest in the building has been well maintained,\nand this total will probably vary relatively little from year\nto year.\nLaurier House is open on weekdays, except Monday, from\n10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1952 39\nOTHER SERVICES\nThe Research Division dealt with 1,698 enquiries during\nthe year. Genealogical questions were again the most numerous\ncategory. In view of the large amount of research that must\nbe done in the field of genealogy, steps are being taken to\ncompile various guides and check lists which will be of assistance\nin this work. The first project to be undertaken will be a check\nlist of genealogical references and material relating to local\nhistory in the Province of Ontario. About 3,000 items had been\nlisted by the end of the year.\nIn the bindery 1,056 volumes were bound in 1952, 421 maps\nwere mounted, and 3,380 pages of manuscript laminated or\notherwise repaired. Nearly 600 volumes were in hand for\nbinding at the end of the year.\nThe Photographic Section had an exceptionally busy year,\nespecially in the field of microfilming. An assistant will soon\nbe added to the staff. At present the photographers themselves have to interrupt their work to do many routine jobs.\nThe aid of a helper should substantially increase the output of\nthis Section.\nAll of which is respectfully submitted.\nWm. Kaye Lamb,\nDominion Archivist. "@en . "First alternative title from cover page of 1882 report.

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