FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



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of Utrecht, with the exception of some small forts which the 

 English had built in the bottom of Hudson's Bay. 



"The King had ceded to them, by that Treaty, a part of 

 Labrador that is to say, the Strait and Bay of Hudson with 

 all the coasts and rivers which fall into the said Strait and 

 Bay of Hudson. This constitutes a large country, but almost 

 uninhabitable and difficult to reach. The greater and better 

 part of Labrador remains to the King that is to say, from 



KILLING WALRUS. 



From De Veer's Waerachtighe, 1605. 



Mingan to Belle Isle and from Belle Isle to the entrance of 

 Hudson's Straits, with all the rivers and inland country. 

 This coast is over 400 leagues in extent. It is certain that 

 furs are more abundant and precious in Labrador than in 

 Sweden, Norway or Canada. 



"But that which merits more attention is that the fishery 

 which can be carried on of salmon, codfish, seals, walrus, 

 whales, on this four hundred leagues of coast is able to pro- 

 duce greater riches than the richest gold-mine in Peru, and 



