30 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



He claimed that in one day while fishing at Malbaye, eight 

 leagues below Isle aux Coudres, he had caught a thousand 

 cod, which catch, he said, had never been equalled before in 

 the country. 



From the same work we learn that at the end of the pre- 

 ceding season (1655), two large fishing vessels had been lost 

 off Gaspe. 



Lepine, who reported the large catch of cod off Malbaye 

 to the Jesuits, became in 1659 a member of a firm or society 

 established for the purpose of carrying on seal fishing or 

 hunting in the neighbourhood of Tad- 

 oussac. His associates were Courville, 

 deTilly, Buiffort, Godefroy, Rozee and 

 Simon Guyon. 



Several references are made to 

 the cod, salmon, eel, and sturgeon 

 fisheries of the St. Lawrence in the 

 journal above quoted from. 



The archives of Montreal for 

 1659 are interesting as containing 

 frequent notices prohibiting the in- 

 habitants of that place from going 

 Pierre Boucher. far from their habita ti ons to fish, 



for fear of the Iroquois. 



Pierre Boucher, 1 Governor of Three Rivers, who wrote in 

 1663 of the resources and the requirements of New France, at 

 the request of Louis XIV., and dedicated his book 2 to Col- 

 bert, devoted a whole chapter (VII.) to the fish of the colony, 

 of which he gave a fairly complete list. 



1 He was the ancestor of many prominent Canadian families, 

 including those of Boucher de Boucherville, Boucher de la Bruere, 

 Boucher de Grosbois, Boucher de la Perriere, Boucher de Grand- 

 pre, Boucher de Niverville, Boucher de la Brocquerie, and many 

 others. 



2 Histoire veritable et naturellc des mwurs et productions du 

 pays de la Nouvelle France vulgairement dite le Canada. 



