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FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



Pierre Denys was the active manager of the enterprise. In 

 1672 he went to Isle Percee to live, and in 1673 was joined 

 by his family, who were accompanied by the Recollect Father 

 Exuper Dethunes. No doubt their residence here was, how- 

 ever, only temporary, and for the summer season. Documents 

 of the Clairambault Collection, of date 1676, state that in 

 September of that year a brother and son of Pierre Denys, 

 with a Kecollet Father and three other persons, were at Isle 

 Percee or Petite Riviere, 1 and that at Isle Percee was a large 



storehouse of fifty feet by twen- 

 ty-five, a lodging for the com- 

 mandant, and another, not yet 

 finished, for the Recollets, with 

 100 arpents of cleared land. At 

 Petite Riviere, which other 

 documents locate at the bottom 

 of the Baye des Morues, two 

 leagues from Isle Percee, 

 (thereby establishing its ident- 

 ity with the present Barachois), 

 was the winter settlement and 

 general headquarters; that at 

 Isle Percee being only a summer 

 fishing station. Here was dwel- 

 ling for fifteen persons, storehouses, stables, cleared lands, 

 gardens, farming utensils, boats, cattle, poultry, swine, and 

 hosts of articles and stores of which a full list is given. This 

 was the settlement at which Father le Clercq found Monsieur 

 Denys "very well lodged" in October, 1675. His basin, com- 

 monly called la Petite Riviere, was obviously that now called 

 Barachois. The exact site of the settlement on the Bara- 

 chois is not stated, but the full description of the place sent 

 me by Rev. Father Sirois, formerly of the village of Barachois, 



i There were actually eight people in all at Perce, of whom 



lerre Denys gives the names as follows: "my brother St-Pierre 



my son Bonaventure du Tartre, my youngest son, Jacques Boissel, 



Pierre Filsonpier, sailor, Lepine and his wife," and the Recollet 



