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from Dorsetshire. Before 1854 there was no herring-fishery 

 at the Bay of Islands ; and between it and Port-au-Choix 

 inclusively there were only 320 inhabitants in 1849 1 an ^ 4^ 

 in i854. 2 Of these places between the Bay of Islands and 

 Port-au-Choix, something less than villages, and more than 

 villas, Bonne Bay, Cow Cove with its families from St. George 

 Bay, and Ingornachoix with its shipbuilders, were the most 

 important ; and as on the south coast, isolated families filled to Ingorna- 

 in the interstices between the big bays. North of Port-au- ^here there 

 Choix, we hear of some Nova Scotian sailors and residents were ship- 

 in St. John Island netting seals and giving away innumerable "* ers> 

 lobsters in 1853.* Lobsters were not despised as in island, 



Chappell's time, nor were they yet a staple export. Still 

 further north, St. Barbe Bay or Anchor Point was the sters, 1853, 

 principal place, and 100 or 200 persons lived in its neigh- and St. 

 bourhood in 1848, including Mrs. Genge, 'the mother of w ^cl'was 

 the settlement,' who came with her family in 1817, and some ahorcached 

 Dorsetshire immigrants who had recently arrived. 3 St. Barbe ships l from 

 and its neighbourhood formed a neutral district into which the north- 

 southerners and westerners poured upwards from the south, 

 and a counter-current of east-coast men, Jerseymen, English- 

 men, and other residents of Labrador poured downwards 

 from the north. Up and down the whole of the west coast 

 Englishmen dwelt and Frenchmen wandered, for this was the 

 Treaty coast. The south side of Belle Isle Strait was almost 

 without settlers or wanderers. 



On the north-east extremity of Newfoundland there was Like 17ie~] 



a French base independent of St. Pierre, to which, however, &?****%! 



r , . ' French \ 



it was second in importance. The principal fishing-rooms visitors to ' 



of the French were within a few miles of one another at tji e east and 



west coasts 

 Quirpon, Griguet, St. Lunaire, Havres des Brehats, St. di/cred 



Anthony, Cremaillere, Goose Cove, St. Julien, Croc, Cap/""" 



1 Church in the Colonies, 1849, No. 25, p. 61. 



2 Canning's Report, ubi supra. 



3 Church in the Colonies, 1848, No. 21, p. 79 ; 1853, No. 30, p. 16 ; 

 1857, No - 35, P- n- 



