Excerpt from Sessional Papers, Vol. 7: Fourth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, Session 1886But even should that knowledge fail to be of such general utility, it would still claim attention, because it serves to rescue from oblivion a multitude of facts of interest to families, and to particular localities.If that study has not heretofore been more exhaustive it was not that our historians lacked zeal in their researches or felt daunted by their formidable task. No, our historians have done credit to the country by their labours, and acquired a deserved reputation, but in spite of all their zeal and all their labours, the sources of information often failed them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.