To Revive
Historical Society
President H. F.
Cook;
secretary-treasurer H. L. Macpherson;
curator Henry Johnson;
executive, the officers and Frank Reid and Judge Boles;
auditors, W. C. McCall and H. B. Donly.
The above were
the officers elected at a meeting convened in the Town Council Hall on
Monday evening to discuss the re-organization of the Norfolk
Historical Society.
This institution
is singular in that it has valuable possession in the shape of a
considerable collection of historical papers and a bank account
containing some $170.
Some twenty
members turned up on Monday evening, and those present were unanimous
that the society should not be permitted to die altogether.
Senator McCall
gave a report of a deputation from the Ontario Historical Society
waiting last smumer [sic] at Ottawa on the Government, to place
the claims of the "Galinee site" for a national monument
before them.
The proposition
is to erect a cross on the bluff overlooking Port Dover harbor, and on
it place a copy of the inscription displayed by the two Sulpicians,
Dollur de Casson and De Galinee when they erected their cross there in
the spring of 1670, after having spent the previous winter in a rude
loghouse on the bank of Black Creek, about three-quarters of a mile
from its mouth.
The marking of
the actual site is a matter that will be left to local effort, and the
Norfolk Historical Society will take up the work this summer. The
meeting appointed Senator McCall, Judge Boles, F. Reid and H. B. Donly
a committee to secure information and report.
