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tered bay and Corbett used to cook and sweep 

 the shanty while his men hunted and trapped. 



Wrecks used to occur nearly every year of 

 some late lumber-laden sailing vessel and in 

 the spring, after the hunt was over, Corbett and 

 his men would load their schooner with copper 

 and iron from the hulls and sail for Quebec in 

 June when the moderate summer winds had 

 begun. 



Five or six years ago M. Menier, the French 

 chocolate king, purchased the island from the 

 Seignorial heirs and has converted it into a 

 game reserve. He has cut road, built wharfs 

 and made many other improvements and is try- 

 ing to acclimate animals that were not found 

 on the island, such as moose, Virginia red deer, 

 buffalo, beaver, etc. 



A resident governor lives on the island the 

 year around and has a steamer of a couple of 

 hundred tons at his command that plies between 

 the island and Quebec, as necessity requires. M. 

 Menier, with a party of friends, comes from 

 France each summer and passes a month on 

 the island fishing and shooting. There are three 

 salmon rivers, one where the fish are especially 

 large and numerous. 



After purchasing the island M. Menier se- 

 cured from the Canadian Government the right 



