[HOWLEY] THE LABRADOR BOUNDARY QUESTION 303 
not Cape Chidley, has always been known by fishermen and navigators 
as Hudson’s Straits. ‘The charter of the Hudson’s Bay Company 
states as the limit of its territory in this neighbourhood “ which is 
commonly called Hudson’s Straits.” It is not then any point which 
the said company may choose to select and mark upon the map, but the 
point that has been commonly known from time immemorial by sailors, 
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and navigators of experience and knowledge in those parts, as such, 
which is to be accepted. It would be very important to obtain evidence 
from practical seamen on this point. 
Having thus settled the question of the Northern point on the 
coast of Labrador where Newfoundland jurisdiction commences, let us 
now return southwards and endeavour to fix the southern point. As 
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