REPORT

CANADIAN ARCHIVES

BY

DOUGLAS BRYMNER

ARCHIVIST.

1890.

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

OTTAWA:

PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN, PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST
EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

1891.

CONTENTS.

ARCHIVIST'S REPORT.....

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

NOTE A.-ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE-

No. 1. Sir Guy Carleton to Lord Hillsborough.........

2. Lettre d'un Ancien Capitaine de Milice (original and translation)

3. The Report of the Committee on the Administration of Justice by

the Justices of the Peace.......

NOTE B.-CONSTITUTIONAL Act of 1791-

No. 1. Mr. Grenville to Lord Dorchester........

2. Mr. Grenville to Lord Dorchester.........

3. Plan for a House of Assembly drawn up by the Committee of

Quebec and Montreal in 1784............

4. Reports from the Lords' Commissioners for Trade and Plantations,

respecting a House of Representatives, dated 10th July, 1769.

5. Lord Dorchester to Mr. Grenville............................

6. The proposed Act for the division of the Province.......

7. Chief Justice Smith to Lord Dorchester.......

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10. Notes and observations on the Act of 1791............................

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8. Proposed additions to the New Canada Bill for a General Govern-

9. Mr. Dundas to Lord Dorchester.......

NOTE C.-NORTH WESTERN EXPLORATIONS-

No. 1. Lieutenant Governor Hamilton to Lord Sydney......

2. Memorial of the North-West Company........

3. Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher to General Haldimand..

4. Memorial of Peter Pond.......

5. Benjamin Frobisher to Hon. Henry Hamilton...

6. James McGill to Hon. Henry Hamilton......

7. James McGill to Hugh Finlay.....

8. Benjamin Frobisher to Hugh Finlay..............................

9. Memorial of Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher to Lieut. Governor

Hamilton........

10. Lieut. Governor Hamilton to Brigadier General St. Leger........................

12. Petition from the Merchants of Detroit.......

13. Lieut. Governor Hay to Lieut. Governor Hamilton................

14. Brigadier General St. Leger to Lieut. Governor Hamilton.......

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17. John Dcase, Indian Superintendent, to Lieut. Governor Hamilton.

18. Memoranda respecting public matters in the Province of Quebec,

submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Sydney by Gen. Haldimand..

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NOTE E-RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE PEACE OF 1783-

5. Opinions and observations of different persons respecting the

United States.......

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9. Observations sur le pays de l'Ouest (original and translation)......

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28. Conversation respecting the Western Country..

29. 30. Henry Motz to Lt.-Colonel Beckwith................

31. Lord Dorchester to Sir John Johnson..

32. Henry Motz to Lt.-Colonel Beckwith.....

33. Lord Dorchester to Lord Grenville......

34. Minute respecting peace with Western Indians.

35. Lord Dorchester to Lord Grenville........

36. Right Hon. Henry Dundas to Lord Dorchester....

37. Lord Dorchester to Lord Grenville .......

38. Lt.-Colonel Beckwith to Lord Dorchester.....

STATE PAPERS, CALENDAR.

Q. 1. Correspondence with General Murray;

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1761-1763................

1764-1765......................
with the English Ministry, 1766........
between Governor Carleton and the English

Ministry, 1766-1767.......

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Governor Carleton, Lieut. Governor

Cramahé, Col. Irving and Lord Hillsborough, 1770.....

8. Correspondence between Lord Hillsborough and Lieut. Gov-

Governor Carleton, General Burgoyne

and Lord George Germain, 1777..................................

Q. 14. Lieut. General Burgoyne's Expedition and Surrender at