Excerpt from Index to Reports of Canadian Archives From 1872 to 1908 The systematic organization of a federal collection of Archives was begun in 187 2. Before that time there had been some individual attempts to gather in France or in England documents relating to the early days of our history; but the lack of uniformity in research and of' centralization afterwards, rendered these pioneer efforts of little value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.