160 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



for both Upper and Lower Canada was duly authorized by 

 both Acts, and provision was also made in the Act of 1858 for 

 the payment of fishing bounties. 



The Hon. Joseph Cauchon was the father of the Fishery 

 Act of 1857, and the Hon. L. V. Sicotte of that of 1858. 



Mr. Whitcher was first appointed 

 to the permanent staff of the Crown 

 Lands Department on the 1st April, 

 1847, at 5s. 6d. per diem, his salary 

 being gradually increased to $1,060 at 

 the time of his appointment as head 

 of the Fisheries Branch. He con- 

 tinued to occupy this position until 

 several years after Confederation, 

 having been attached to the Dom- 

 inion Department of Marine and 

 Hon. L. V. Sicotte. Fisheries at its formation in 1867. 



Mr. S. P. Bauset, who had served in the Deputy-Sur 

 veyor-General's Branch from the 24th of April, 1854, was 

 transferred to the Fisheries Branch in May, 1861, as draughts- 

 man, copyist and French translator. 



Messrs. John McCuaig and William Gibbard were given 

 charge of the fisheries in Upper Canada, so far as field work 

 was concerned. 



Mr. Richard Nettle had been appointed Superintendent 

 of Fisheries for Lower Canada on the 15th June, 1857, under 

 the act of that year at a salary of $1,200 per annum. For 

 the first few years of his connection with the Department, 

 Mr. Nettle visited many of the North Shore salmon rivers, in- 

 cluding the Godbout, Bersimis, Moisic and Mingan, as well 

 as those of the Gaspe district and several of the inland lakes. 

 In May, 1860, a division of labor was, however, made by a 

 departmental order, for the purpose of obviating confusion 

 and for further efficiency and economy. The Superinten- 

 dence of the Gulf Division from Pointe des Monts to Cap 

 Chatte, Gaspe, Baie des Chaleurs, etc., was assigned to Cap- 

 tain Fortin, and the Upper St. Lawrence tributaries in Lower 

 Canada, its interior lakes, etc., to Mr. Nettle. 



