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Other remains are found on Bay du Vin Island. Creuxius' map of 1660 

 marks a settlement on the south side of the bay. Another early settlement 

 was near what is still called French River Point (Map No. 10). The local 

 tradition, as given me by a resident, is that this village pursued the dog-fish 

 fishery for the sake of the skins, which commanded a good price in France, 

 where they were used for polishing purposes. 

 C— Beaubears Point and Island. There can be little doubt that here also was 

 an extensive settlement, though we know nothing positively as to its origin. 

 Probably, however, it too, if not formed about 1750, was at least increased 

 about that time, and doubtless still more after the expulsion of 1755. Cooney 

 places the settlement on Beaubears Point i.e. Wilsons Point (map No. 33),. 

 comprising a town of two hundred houses, a chapel and provision stores ; 

 but most of the remains of settlement known locally are on the island. An 

 old road along its centre is considered locally to be French. Cooney states- 

 there was a battery on the eastern end of the island. In 1756 there were 

 3,500 French under Boishébert on the Miramichi (Murdoch, II., 312). 

 Doubtless this settlement was destroyed by W^olfe's expedition of 1758. 

 Local tradition states that the passage, called " the Tickle," is artificial, and 

 was made by Boishébert. This is an error, for Jumeau's map of 1685 and 

 Franquelin-DeMeulles of 1686 show it with perfect clearness. 

 D— Canadian Point. The tradition is that here was a settlement of some 

 importance. This is confirmed by a most interesting view made in 1758 by 

 one of Wolfe's officers, published as a copperplate in London in 1768. It i& 

 entitled "A View of Miramichi, a French Settlement in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, destroyed by Brigadier Murray detached by General Wolfe for 

 that purpose, from the Bay of Gaspe." i This view shows a settlement of 

 four houses and a church on the left bank of the river, at a place which I 

 can only identify as just east of the extremity of Canadian Point (map No. 

 33). M. Gaudet calls this -point' la pointe acadienne, of which Canadian may 

 be a corruption. 

 E.— French Fort Cove. Tradition places here an early battery, no doubt 

 correctly. The battery must have stood on the western entrance to the cove, 

 which is still called locally " Battery Hill," for the position is admirably 

 adapted for the purpose (map No. 33). There is here a high bluff, and the 

 channel of the river curves close to the shore, so that the command of the 

 river from the bluff is perfect. In this respect it resembles the Battery 

 Point and Point la Garde on the Restigouche, and no doubt there was a. 

 battery here to protect the important settlements above. 

 ^•~Burnt Church Point. Here was no doubt a very important village, and 

 this point on the fine survey map of 1754 is called " Pointe de Village." The 

 Indian settlement and church were close beside it, and it was the burning of 

 this church by the English in 1758 that gave it its name. The local tradi- 

 tion, as given by Cooney, is that it was burnt by the captain of a ship bearing 

 the remains of Wolfe to England in reprisal for the murder of some of his 

 men by the Indians, but it is much more likely that it was burnt by the 

 expedition of 1758, above mentioned, which was sent by Wolfe for the 

 express purpose of destroying the French villages on the Miramichi, As I 

 have elsewhere pointed out, the tradition of the six murdered sailors may 

 belong earli er, and explain certain place names in that region (Place Nomen- 



1 This view is published in the new illustrated edition of Parkman'B "Montcalm and Wolfe"- 

 Little, Brown & Co.), which contains also a portrait of Boishébert. 



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