FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



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Gilles Hocquart. 



Intendant of Canada, 



1731-1748. 



concession of the Little Mecatina granted in 1740 by Beau- 

 harnois and Hocquart to Sieur Vincent. 



Between Little arid Gros Mecatina 

 were the fishing rights conceded in 

 1749 to de Beaujeu and Estebe. 



Adjoining this latter on the east 

 were those accorded in 1720 to De 

 la Valtrie, and these again adjoined 

 those of de La Fontaine, granted 

 in 1750 for a term of 15 years by 

 Jonquiere and Bigot. 



The Sieur de Brouague was the 

 grantee in 1750 of a concession ex- 

 tending east to the river St. Paul or 

 Esquimaux. 



Two leagues facing the Gulf on 

 either side of the mouth of the St. 

 Augustin, with fishing rights thereto pertaining, were con- 

 ceded to Sieur Cherron in 1750 by Jonquiere and Bigot, 

 and a similar concession appears to have been made to 

 Phillippe d'Ailleboust de Cery in 1753. 



Sieur Tache became, in 1750, the proprietor of the rights 

 to lands and 

 fishing b e - 

 tween Phely- 

 peaux and 

 Forteau Bays, 

 though it ap- 

 pears from 



an entry on the margin of the deed of concession that he sub- 

 sequently abandoned them. 



Phelypeaux Bay, it will be remembered, was one of the 

 concessions belonging to the Sieur de Courtemanche, and 

 subsequently to his stepson, the Sieur de Brouague. 



The fishing rights extending from Cape Charles to St. 

 Alexis Bay, and those of the adjacent islands were conceded 

 by Beauharnois and Hocquart, in 1743, to Sieur Antoine 



Autograph of Governor de la Jonquiere 



