[65] The Laying Of The Corner Stone Of This Lofty Building Whose Proportions Must Have Seemed Colossal To Our Fathers, Was Done With Grand Masonic Honors On The 14th August, 1805, By The Hon.

Thos.

Dunn, President of the Province of Lower Canada, and administrator of the Government, assisted by William Holmes, Esq., M.D., Deputy Grand Master of Ancient and Accepted Free-Masons. Several coins of that reign were deposited under the stone. Amongst the members of the craft, we find the names of Joseph Bouchette, Claude Denechaud, Joseph Plante, Angus Shaw, Thomas Place, David Monro, the architect's name is Edward Cannon, grand-father of Messrs. Ed. J. Lawrence and James Cannon, our esteemed fellow-citizens; Rev. Dr. Sparks delivered a splendid oration, to be found in the Quebec Mercury, of 17th August, 1805.

Hujusce Fori Municipalis, Anglice UNION HALL, ex Senates provincialis consulto erecti, THOMAS DUNN Vir Honorabilis Provinciae Proetectus Politiaeque Administrator. Adstantibus et Curatioribus Selectis.

Hon. John Young Praese, Hon. John Antoine Panet Comitiae Provincialis Rogatore. Jonathan Sewell Armigero Cognitore Regio, John Painter et John Blackwood, Armigeris, Pacis Curatoribus; Joseph Bouchette Armigero Mensorum Principali, John Caldwell, Claude Denechaud, John Coltman, John Taylor, Joseph Plante, Angus Shaw, Thomas Place et David Monro, de Quebec Armigeris, Nec non et multis Latomorum hujus Urbis, quorum William Holmes Armiger, M D fuit summus Magister Deputatus, adjuvantibus, hunc primum Lapidem posuit, dei XIV. Mensis Sextilis, Anno Salutis MDCCCV. Nummi quoque Regis Regnantis GEORGE III. Suppositi sunt, Videlicet.

Nummus Aureus Anglice Guinea, aureum etiam Dimidium ejus et Triens; Nummus argenteus solidos quinque Anglicos valans, solidus dimidium solidi, et quarta pars; nummus Aeranus denarios duos Anglicos valens; denarius obolus; et quadrans. EDWARD CANNON, Architectus.

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