some few cases, where descendants of the early English residents were still to be found, and who thought it worth their while their ancestors' bones 'from insult to protect,' the tombstones and monuments, with the remains they guarded, were removed to Mount Royal Cemetery. But such instances were not many and, doubtless, the ashes of scores of once noted citizens of Montreal now lie beneath the sward of the new 'park,' while the stones that once marked the graves and implored the passing tribute of a sigh' have been turned to base account in the macadamizing of the streets. They manage these things better' in the States. In Boston the "Kings' Chapel' and the Park' burial places, and in New York Trinity and St. Paul's Church Yards, situated in the heart of commercial quarters of their respective cities, would, if put up for sale, have a money value to be reckoned by millions; but the hand of the destroyer has never been permitted to touch them. The sacred acres are jealously guarded as part of the history and carefully tended as among the adornments of the two cities." JOTTINGS FROM TOMBSTONES IN THE OLD "ENGLISH" BURYINGGROUND, DORCHESTER STREET, MONTREAL, 1866. 1. 2. 3. The notes in parentheses are by Mr. Shanley. Captain 60th Regiment Member Legislative Council, Lower Canada. Died 10 April 1786 æ : 56. (Conrad Gugy, a Swiss by birth, came to Quebec with General Wolfe.) FELIX GRAHAM Merchant Died 4 Feb: 1787. æ: 65 JAMES ELLICE, Late of Schenectady, N. Y. Died 15 October, 1787 (James Ellice came to Montreal a poor tradesman. He was founder of the great London Banking house of Ellice & Co. His grandson, the Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice, held a high social and political position in England, previous to 1865, about which time he died. The family have large estates in Scotland.) (An upright, square, expensive, monument. The inser ion, on a sandstone tablet, almost illegible.) After crossing the Atlantic from Great Britain was unhappily lost in the River Jacques Cartier. (First wife of Commissary General Clarke. See No. 28.) JEAN FRANÇOIS LOUIS GENEVAY. He was a native of Switzerland but served HONBLE JOHN ELMSLEY Formerly Chief Justice of Upper Canada And at the time of his death Chief Justice of Lower Canada. Died 6 October 1836, æ: 66. (Commissary General Clarke was a U. E. Loyalist from Rhode Island.) (Col. Warde was shot dead in a duel with Robert Sweeney, first husband of Lady Rose, wife of Sir John Rose.) A different course to that followed in Montreal has been taken in other places. An evidence of this is furnished by a "Sketch of the old Parish Burying-ground of Windsor, Nova Scotia," forwarded by Mr. Henry. Youle Hind. The Town Council of Windsor has obtained possession of the ground, one of the oldest rural places of interment in the Dominion, and are taking steps for its preservation and ornamentation, and it is with a view to assist in this object that the sketch has been written. The Calendar of the Haldimand Papers is finished in this report, the titles of the volumes indicating to a large extent, but not altogether, the nature of the documents they contain. The proceedings against the Hon. John Cochrane are in five volumes, the contents of which will fully explain the nature of the case, as referred to in correspondence to be found in preceding volumes, and need not be further referred to. Volume B 213 contains "Memorials from Officers and Soldiers in the Army," the documents in which correspond to this description, with the exception of a communication from the Jesuit Roubaud, of whom an account was given in the report on Archives for 1885, beginning at p. xiii. A very full summary of the document written by Roubaud is given in the Calendar; the text is in B 213, beginning at p. 304. It is undated and without any special address, but very characteristic of the man, who. whilst betraying Du Calvet's confidence. and selling his secrets, laments his fate, saying: "Il en est réduit a moi, que la facilité de caractère entraine toujours vers les malheureux" (p. 308). In volume B 206 Roubaud's correspondence closed in April, 1787, when he appeared to be in the last stage of wretchedness. It will be seen by Haldimand's diary that he was alive subsequent to that date and apparently living on charity. Among the memorials from civilians in Canada (B 217) are several from and respecting negroes, showing the legal existence of slavery down to 1784, the date of the last document on that subject in this volume, which is a petition from a free negro to be protected in his liberty, threatened by the husband of the woman with whom he was a servant. Some interesting information may be found in B 217 respecting the early efforts to establish a system of Protestant education in the Province, and in the following statement I have supplemented this by details contained in other documents. James Tanswell, who succeeded Mr. Reid as school teacher in the city of Quebec, had, according to his own statement, "spent the twenty first years of his life in acquiring a universal education" was assistant in several schools in England, and opened an Academy in London, which he continued for seven years. In 1772, through Messrs. Watson & Rashleigh on behalf of gentlemen in Nova Scotia, "he was prevailed on to cross the Atlantic in order to plant the liberal Arts & Sciences in that Country." After being five years in Nova Scotia he was induced by Sir Guy Carleton to remove to Quebec, where he was to receive every encouragement. He did not arrive until Sir Guy Carleton had left, but appears to have been well received by Haldimand. The boarding school Mr. Tanswell opened proved a cause of loss, he having, as appears by a memorial of the 1st July, 1782, sunk £500, and met with little encouragement, so that he was compelled to ask for other employment to add to his earnings from school fees. A year later (July, 1783) he asked authority to call his school "His Majesty's Royal Quebec Academy," an authority granted him, as he styles himself in a power of attorney dated 31st January, 1785, "Master of His Majesty's Academy" (powers of attorney, 1784-94). Even this title did not appear to bring prosperity, as in March, 1784, he again sent in a memorial appealing on account of his circumstances for an additional room in the Bishop's Palace, "that which Mr. Reid did formerly keep school in." At that date he had been placed on the Civil list for £100 sterling a year, but the warrant for his six months' salary, from 1st November, 1783, to 30th April, 1784, did not issue till the 9th of July of the latter year (Warrants 1784, Vol. I, p. 127). He was subsequently interpreter for the courts, besides holding some other small offices. Schools were established among the loyalists at Machiche, Sorel, St. John's etc, but these were not, so far as the evidence goes, of a kind to furnish more than the most limited education. The first teacher in Montreal who aimed at anything higher, was John Pullman, who, in a memorial dated in January, 1779, stated that he had left New York in 1773 by the recommendation of the Rev. Dr. Ogilvie, to try to establish a school in Montreal, in consequence of an application to him from gentlemen of that city. From the memorial it would appear that he there kept a school under the direction of a committee, and now applied for a licence as Protestant schoolmaster, similar to that granted to Tanswell in Quebec, the recommendation in his favour being signed by the leading men of Montreal. No allowance appears to have been granted to him, and Pullman struggled on, but owing to the number of loyalists and others who had opened schools, his scholars decreased in number and he was reduced to great poverty, so that in 1782 he applied for any small employment as a clerk and for a subscription to a work he had prepared, of which the full name is given, the short title being the "Cash Clerk's Assistant." What became of him there is nothing in the documents to show. Finlay Fisher opened a school about 1778, and from his own statement, it was well attended and flourishing. In his memorial, dated 5th June, 1783, he applied for a share of the grant made to Christie (of whom some account is given in connec |