GENERAL COMMITTEE FORMED
In response to the invitation above referred to, societies and regiments appointed the following delegates to represent them on the General Committee:—
United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada: Colonel G. Sterling Ryerson, President; Colonel G. T. Denison, Lieut.-Colonel George A. Shaw, Mr. R. E. A. Land, Vice-Presidents; Mr. J. Stewart Carstairs, Honorary Secretary; Miss Helen M. Merrill, Honorary Assistant Secretary; Mr. A. R. Davis, Honorary Treasurer; Mr. C. E. Macdonald, Miss Catharine Merritt, Mr. R. S. Neville, K.C., Captain Victor Hall, Miss O. V. Widner, Mrs. F. O. Loft, Mrs. Edmund Phillips, Mrs. Dignam, Toronto.
Six Nations Indians (United Empire Loyalists): Warrior F. O. Loft, Mr. Allen W. Johnson.
British Empire League: Colonel G. T. Denison, Toronto.
Canadian Club: Dr. A. H. U. Colquhoun, President; Mr. F. D. L. Smith, Toronto.
Canadian Defence League: Colonel Fotheringham, Dr. J. L. Hughes, Mr. R. E. Kingsford, Toronto.
Empire Club: Mr. J. Castell Hopkins, Dr. E. K. Richardson, Toronto.
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire: Mrs. A. E. Gooderham, Mrs. E. F. B. Johnstone, Mrs. John Bruce, Miss Constance Boulton, Toronto.
Sons of Scotland: Dr. Alexander Fraser, Dr. John Ferguson, Toronto.
St. George's Society, Toronto: John W. Gamble Boyd.
Lundy's Lane Historical Association: Mr. J. Jackson, Superintendent Queen Victoria Park, Secretary, Niagara Falls, Ont.
Niagara Historical Society: Miss Janet Carnochan, Niagara-on-the-Lake; Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Mrs. Charles Lewis Shaw, Toronto.
Ontario Historical Society: Dr. Alexander Fraser, Secretary, Toronto.
Women's Canadian Historical Society, Toronto: Miss M. Agnes FitzGibbon, Toronto.
Women's Wentworth Historical Society: Mrs. John Calder, Hamilton, President.
Governor-General's Body Guard: Lieut.-Colonel Frank A. Fleming, W. E. L. Coleman, Toronto.
12th Regiment: Major Curran, Toronto.
48th Highlanders: Captain Darling, Adjutant.
'66 Veterans' Association: Captain Geo. Musson, P. E. Noverre, David Creighton, Lieut.-Colonel A. E. Belcher, Lieut.-Colonel Geo. A. Shaw, Toronto.
'85 Veterans' Association: Sergeant A. G. Scovell, Toronto.
[PROGRAMME ADOPTED]
The first meeting of the General Committee thus formed was held on September 25th, 1912, in the Canadian Foresters' Building, College Street, Toronto. There was a large attendance of members.
Colonel Ryerson was appointed Chairman, and Miss Helen M. Merrill Secretary, of the Committee. The report from the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, as given above, having been read to the meeting, resolutions to the following effect were passed:
(1) That Brock's Day be celebrated by a public gathering at Queenston Heights.
(2) That the various patriotic and historical societies, local as well as those within easy reach of Queenston, be invited to send as large delegations as possible to Brock's Monument on Saturday, October 12th, 1912, in commemoration of his death.
(3) That the various patriotic and historical societies be asked to send wreaths for the purpose of decorating Brock's Monument on October 12th.
(4) That a special invitation be sent to Mr. J. A. Macdonell, K.C., Alexandria, Ont., to attend the celebration as the direct representative of Colonel John Macdonell, the Attorney-General of Upper Canada, and Brock's Provincial A.D.C., who fell with his leader, and whose remains rest beneath the monument on Queenston Heights.
(5) That the Honourable the Minister of Militia be asked to order that salutes be fired on October 12th from all saluting points in Canada.
(6) That the churches be asked to arrange that memorial sermons be preached throughout Canada on Sunday, October 13th.
(7) That suitable exercises relating to Brock and 1812 should be held in every school in Canada; and that this suggestion be not only given publicity through the newspapers, but that the attention of the various Ministers of Education in the Dominion be specially drawn to it.
(8) That the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs at Ottawa be asked to take measures to have the history of Brock and the events of the 1812 war brought specially before the children in all Indian Schools under the charge of the Dominion Government.
(9) That a wreath be placed on the picture of Brock in the Parliament Buildings, Toronto.
(10) That it be suggested to the Dominion Government to place a wreath on Brock's Monument in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England.
An Executive Committee was appointed to further these resolutions, consisting of the members of the following special committees:—
Travelling Arrangements, etc.: Colonel Ryerson, Dr. James L. Hughes, Mr. J. S. Carstairs and Mr. C. E. Macdonald.
Press: Mr. J. Castell Hopkins, Dr. Alexander Fraser, Mr. F. D. L. Smith, Miss Helen M. Merrill.
Chairman and Secretary of the Executive Committee: Colonel Ryerson and Miss Helen M. Merrill.
Miss Helen M. Merrill, Honorary Secretary. Colonel George S. Ryerson, Chairman.
James L Hughes. LL.D. J. Castell Hopkins. J. Stewart Carstairs, B.A.
Charles E. Macdonald, Esq. Alexander Fraser, LL.D. F. D. L. Smith, Esq.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.