IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) /- ^ 1.0 I.I ^ 1^ 12.2 ^ li£ Hill 2.0 1.25 V] <^ /a /a ^> >^ *^ o^r^ O / Photographic Sciences Corporation 4. ip \ :\ c^^ \ [v »^ % V '^ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 572-4303 ^4^^ ^%> &^ CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques Technical and Bibliographic Not*a/Nota« tachniquas at bibliographiquaa Tha Instituta has attamptad to obtain tha bast original copy availabia for filming. Faaturas of this copy which may ba bibliographically uniqua, which may altar any of tha imagas in tha reproduction, or which may significantly change tha usual method of filming, are checked below. D Coloured covers/ Couverture de couieur r^ Covers damaged/ D □ D D Couverture andommagie Covers restored and/or laminated/ Couverti^re restaurie et/ou peiiiculAe □ Cova tit', missing/ La t/'. e V, couvertui couverture manque j — I Colourr (meaning "CON- TINUED"), or the symbol V (meaning "END"), whichever applies. Un des symboies suivants apparaftra sur la dernlAre image de cheque microfiche, selon ie cas: le symbols —^ signlfle "A SUIVRE", le symboie V signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction rntlos. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning In the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagram i illustrate the method: Les cartes, r 'anches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre fiimAs A des taux de reduction diff Arents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul cilchA, II Mt film* A partir de I'angle supArleur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bes, en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. lies diagrammes suivants lliustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Niagara, Ont, t898. Dear Sir, — Three years ago, Rev. Canon Bull, the respected President of the Lundy's I^ane Historical Society, suggested in his report the placing of a cairn or monument of some kind to commemorate the landing of the United Empire Loyalists on our shores. Since then, at the meet- ing of the Provincial Historical Association here, the proposition of the Niagara Historical Society m regard to this mot witlj much ap- proval, and a grant was given as the nucleus of a fund. The expatriation of this people has s arcely any parallel in history except the Acadian Expu' 'on or that of the TTuguenots from France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In all ages and nations it has been the custom to commemorate any great event by some con- spicuous pile pointing to Heaven in memory of a victory gained or a deliverance granted, and surely the landing on our shores of a people coming through dangers great and multiform, to an almost wilder- ness, leaving homes of plenty, is an event *^o be commemorated — an event which has had reisults far reaching and important, for it may truly be said that had not tlse great majority of people in Canada been U. E. Loyalists, the result of the war of 1812 might have been very different, for the strong determination anadians to defend their territory was intensified in the case of those who had suffei* .l* oo much to maintain the unity of the Empire. It is proposed to send circulars to all descendants of U. E. Loyal- ists in the Niagara peninsula, asking advice and assistance; to all His- torical Societies in the Province; to ])etition the Dominion and Pro- vincial Governments for aid; and it is hoped that ere long, in the words of Mr. Coyne, the President of the Provincial Historical Asso- ciation, there may be a monument here as of Horatius of old, "plain for all folk to see," on the landing place of these patriotic men and women. Advice is asked as to what form the memorial should take, a cairn » a shaft, a tower^ a building; the cost to be aimed at, the place, the inscription, whether the names of families or individuals. The place suggested is the foot of King Street, near the fishery ground, but a late suggestion made is that in view of the increasing contents of the Historical room (so many of these i elating to the early settlers) the nicmorial take the form of a building for the Historical collection, with tower attached. An answer is respectfully and earnestly requested, to be addressed to the Secretary of the Society. The officers of the Society are: Patron, Wvn. Kirby. F. R. C. S.; President, Miss Carnochan; Vice-Pres- dent, Henry Paffard; Secretary, Alfred Ball, Treasurer, Mrs. A. Servos; Curator, Capt. 'Ailkinson. COMMITTEE. Rev. J. C. Garrett, W. F. Seymour, B. A., lohn D. Servos; Mrs. Ascher, Miss Clement. HON. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Charles A. F. Ball, Peter Whitmore, Mr?,. Roe. HONORARY MEMBERS. J Dr. Scaddmg, Rev. Canon Bull, Wm. Gibson. M. P., Major Cruikshank, Capt. M. Konkle. R. O. Konkle, Major Hiscott, M.P.P. ^UUKL \c^S^\