REPORT

625-88

ON

CANADIAN ARCHIVES

BY

DOUGLAS BRYMNER, Archivist

1892

(Being an Appendix to Report of the Minister of Agriculture.)

OTTAWA:

PRINTED BY S. E. DAWSON, PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST

ARCHIVIST'S REPORT

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

i

List of books, &c., presented with the names of the givers.....

NOTE A.--SETTLEMENTS AND SURVEYS.

Applicants for lands in May, 1788.

The same in July, 1788......

The same from July to October, 1788........

The same in March, 1789........

The same in July, 1789.

Township of Lancaster....

First concession......

Second do

Third do

Land Board of Mecklenburg..

List of reduced officers of Provincial corps who applied for land be-

tween 17th June and 9th September, 1789......

List of old settlers applying during the same period.

List of persons from the American States, &c., admitted during the

same period...........

.....

List of lands granted between 1st October, 1788, and 23rd September,

1789......

Townships mentioned in last list..

78

Petitioners at Montreal, reported in January, 1790, for lands on the

Ottawa......

8

Settlers at Hamilton, Bay of Chaleurs, who have no titles to lands

occupied since 1762..

8

NOTE B.-LOWER CANADA IN 1800.

Lieut. Governor Milnes to the Duke of Portland .......

Enclosed:

Land granted in Canada previous to the Conquest..

Revenues and expenditures from 1795.......

Remarks..........

....

NOTE C.-ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS IN LOWER CANADA.

No. 1. Lieut. Governor Milnes to Lord Hobart.......

2. Anglican Bishop of Quebec to Lieut. Governor Milnes

Enclosed:

Appendix A........

do B......

3. Lord Hobart to Lieut. Governor Milnes.....

4. Conversation, Mgr. Plessis and Attorney General Sewell.....

First Report

Second Report.

5. Lieut. Governor Milnes to Lord Camden..

Enclosed:

Requête de Mgr. Denaut au Roy (original).

Petition of Mgr. Denaut to the King (translation)...