FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 135 



his journal, under date of June 22nd, 1833 1 in Little Na- 



tashquan Harbor: "It is said 



there are 300 vessels employed 



in the fisheries on this coast 



averaging 75 tons each, and 



manned by 50 men to each 



six vessels, equal to 2,500 men. 



Of these one half are French, 



one fourth British and the 



rest Americans. Each vessel 



takes away on an average, 1,500 



quintals of codfish, at 112 



pounds per quintal. The fish 



average about four pounds Admiral Bay field. 



each in weight, being small on this coast." 



LABRADOR, 1835-1840. 



An apparently well drawn picture of the conditions of 

 affairs on the coast of the Canadian Labrador, three quarters 

 of a century ago, has been left us by Mr. Samuel Robertson, 

 at that time a resident of Spar Point, Labrador. In a paper 

 which was read for him by Dr. Morrin, afterwards Mayor of 

 Quebec, before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec,, 

 on the 16th of January, 1841, 2 though it bears internal 

 evidence of having been prepared some six years previously^ 

 Mr. Robertson said 



" For the last ten years there has been a considerable 

 increase both in produce and settlers. There is now in the 

 first hundred and fifty miles from the Province line, about 

 fifty establishments, more or less extensive, chiefly sedentary 



1 Quoted by Captain J. G. Boulton, R.N., in his paper on Ad- 

 miral Bayfield, read before the Literary and Historical Society of 

 Quebec, 4th January, 1909. 



2 Published in the Society's Tansactions, Vol. IV., Quebec, 1856. 



