OLD MURRAY BAY 



exactly like a pike; its jaws were from five 

 to six feet long with a row of large teeth on 

 each side of a yellowish colour. It kept 

 itself sometimes for nearly a minute on the 

 surface of the water. At 5 P.M. seeing 

 nothing more of it, we embarked again, 

 keeping close in shore . . .' Alas that such 

 chances never come our way to-day! 



Through the manor-houses, Murray Bay 

 must have kept touch with the outside 

 world from the time of the English grants, 

 and by 1840 a few had learned the way to 

 the inaccessible place and had found it good. 

 The Murray's repute for salmon brought 

 stray visitors — as the well-known Dr. Hen- 

 ry in 1830; but his account of a four days' 

 passage from Quebec in a filthy and crowd- 

 ed schooner would discourage anyone not 

 a daft fisherman from the venture. Those 

 who faced the hardships were able to lodge 

 comfortably — bedroom, sitting-room and 

 board — at $10 the month. 



The steamer that ran occasionally to 

 Tadousac in 1846 used to land passengers 

 for Murray Bay in small boats at the Petit 

 Debarquement under the Point, there being 

 then good water within the curve of the 

 bar; perhaps also at Pointe a Gaze on the 

 Cap a I'Aigle shore. Although the reefs 

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