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far as the mere Coast is concerned, there can be no doubt that at pre- 
sent it ends at Blane Sablon. But it is to be observed that the Letters 
Patent of 1876, already quoted, do not say simply “ from the entrance 
to Hudson’s Straits to Blane Sablon,”—but “ to a line to be drawn due 
north and south from Blanc Sablon on the said coast, to the fifty-second 
degree of north lat.” 
It follows then that our boundary line follows the coast from the 
point C. to Blanc Sablon and thence by the meridian to the point 
A. Now it might appear that the undefined and undescribed western 
boundary line should be a straight line drawn from A to C, as shown 
in the dotted line on the map. And as Quebec appears to claim 
from the division above cited, I would first observe that even if this 
were the case the whole of Hamilton Inlet would be included in New- 
foundland ‘territory. And even if it is held that Cape Chidley is the 
“entrance to Hudson’s Straits,” a line drawn from the point A to that 
cape would still leave Rigolette in Newfoundland territory. 
But I maintain that the point of limitation on the south is nor 
the point (A) north of Blanc Sablon, but the point (B) at the head 
waters of St. John River, and that the true western boundary of New- 
foundland’s jurisdiction in Labrador is a straight line drawn from the 
point B to the pomt C shown by the dash and dot line on the map. 
Now, to prove this, I must recur again to the Acts of Limitation. 
It is to be remembered that by the Act of 1763, the eastern boundary 
of Quebec, separating that Province from Newfoundland, was the River 
St. John up to its head waters at the point B. Thence the northern 
boundary of Quebec Province is defined as a straight line passing 
through Lake St. John and reaching Lake Nipissing. North of that 
line Quebec had no jurisdiction and although by the above recited Act 
of 1898, a considerable addition of territory has been given to Quebec 
on the north, yet she cannot encroach on Newfoundland territory. 
Now nothing is said either in the Act of 1763 or in the Proclamation 
of 1876 about the western boundary of Newfoundland territory. The 
words of the proclamation are as follows:—“. . . All that coast from 
the River St. John to the Hudson’s Straits” is placed under the do- 
minion of the Governor of Newfoundland. It seems then that there can 
be no doubt that at that time the western boundary of Newfoundland 
territory was a straight line drawn from the head waters of the River St. 
John (B) to Hudson’s Straits (C), shown by the dash and dot line on the 
map. Now, when by the Act of 1825, (6 Geo. IV), the final change 
was made, and the portion of the coast between the River St. John and 
Blanc Sablon was again given to Quebec, it was distinctly defined on 
the north as being the 52nd parallel of north latitude. North of that 
