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FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



Report just quoted from was laid upon the table of the 



House, that Mr. Cauchon introduced the Fishery Act of 



1857. 



Largely, no doubt, as a result of Mr. Richard Nettle's 



i i agitation of the matter in the press 



and otherwise, and of the abuses 

 which he signalized in his book, 

 published in the early part of 1857 

 and also because of the strong per- 

 sonal interest taken in the matter by 

 the Governor- General, and by the 

 Hon. Mr. Cauchon, Commissioner of 

 Crown Lands, Parliament was inun- 

 dated with petitions from various 

 parties in different parts of the coun- 

 try, praying for the enactment of a 

 Hon. Joseph Cauchon. 1&w for the protection of galmon and 



trout in the River St. Lawrence and its tributaries. 



Pere Arnaud, the well-known missionary to the Mon- 

 tagnais Indians, and some of his flock, were among the signers 

 of a petition to this effect, dated from Escoumains, while the 

 Hurons were not behind their Montagnais cousins in the 

 matter, and forwarded a similar petition signed by Paul 

 Tahourhenche and others. 



Pere Arnaud 's influence with 

 the Montagnais Indians was enorm- 

 ous, and though he has now been 

 living in retirement at the house of 

 the Oblats in St. Sauveur, for many 

 years, and is eighty-six years of 

 age, his name and his memory are 

 held in great veneration by the 

 native tribes of Labrador, among 

 whom he has lived and labored for 

 well over half a century, enduring 

 for the greater part of a long life- 

 time, the hardships, in all extremes Rev. Pere Arnaud, O.M.I. 



