56 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



with the rights of fishing, hunting and trade thereon was 

 made by Count Frontenac on the 14th November, 1696, to 

 Sieur Hubert. On the 10th September, 1707, the Marquis 

 de Vaudreuil conceded the point of Paspebiac, Baie des 

 Chaleurs, together with a league in front of each side of the 

 said point to Pierre Haimard, Provost Judge of Notre Dame 

 des Anges, and the concession was registered in the office of 

 the Superior Council of Quebec, 26th November, 1708. 1 



LA HONTAN ON FISH. 



The Baron La Hontan, in 1705, described the wealth of 

 the salmon fisheries of the rivers flowing into the Baie des 

 Chaleurs and of the cod fisheries of Perce, and furnished an 

 interesting though necessarily incomplete list of the fish 

 inhabiting the St. Lawrence from the great lakes down to its 

 mouth, with a more or less amusing description of some of 

 the species ; giving the trout of the Great Lakes, for instance, 

 credit for attaining a length of five and a half feet. 2 



Discussing the wealth and importance of the Canadian 

 fisheries he went so far as to declare that neither New France 

 nor New England could have subsisted, in his time, without 

 both the cod fishery and the fur trade, and pointed out that 

 the consumption of cod fish was so great in all the southern 

 countries of Europe that few branches of industry were so 

 safe or so lucrative as the fishery in question. 



THE PORPOISE FISHERIES, 



The porpoise fishing industry is said to have been estab- 

 lished at Kamouraska as early as 1701. At all events, the 

 right to this fishing was formally conceded in 1705 by Gov- 

 ernor de Vaudreuil and Intendant Beauharnois to Sieurs 

 Hazeur and Peyre (or Peire) for fifteen years. For many 



iJugements et deliberations du Conseil Superieur de Quebec. 

 Vol. V., p. 324. 



2 Memoire de VAmerique Septentrionale ou la suite des voyages 

 de M. le Baron de la Hontan, etc., etc. A la Haye, M. DCCXV 

 Second Tome, pp. 24, 51, 53, et seq. 



