AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2037 



both shores of the river Saint Lawrence, above Gasped ? A. No, I don't 

 think so. 



Q. Do you remember my asking you anything to that effect ! A. I 

 think so. I said I never fished there. 



Q. You never mentioned the place Gaspe" in direct examination ! A. 

 I said I had fished some oft Bonaventure. You asked me how far up I 

 had been, and I told you 10 miles above Gaspe*, as nigh as I could judge. 



Q. Is that the way you generally went ! A. What do you mean f 



Q. You cannot deny that you stated in evidence since I first com- 

 menced the examination, that at some other places besides the Mag- 

 dalen Islands, you had fished generally ? A. I said I had fished on 

 Bradley. 



Q. After you had left Bradley and gone north, I asked you about 

 some other places, and you said you fished there generally, and they 

 were different places from the Magdalen Islands. That is correct, is it 

 not ? A. I told you I went to Bradley, and from there to the Magdalen 

 Islands, but we often tried in going. I spoke of what we call the gully 

 between Bradley and the Magdalens. 



Q. I was speaking of farther north. From your own expression you 

 did not mean the Magdalen Islands alone, but all around ; and I took it 

 up and asked you if you did not fish on both shores of the Saint Law- 

 rence ? A. And I told you no. 



Q. Were you ever in Bay Chaleurs ? A. No farther than Port Daniel. 

 I went in once to make a harbor, but I did not stay, and came out. 



Q. You did not fish in Bay Chaleurs ? A. Not in what I call Chaleur 

 Bay, inside. 



Q. Did you ever fish on the shore of Gaspe ? A. No. I was up there 

 once, but I didn't fish there. I fished away oft' eastward of Gasp*-. 

 When we were at Bonaventure we tried up and down there. 

 , Q. Every year ? A. No. 



Q. Tell me when. A. The same year I had been np at Bonaventure. 

 If you let me look at the year in my book I can tell you pretty near. I 

 never made a general fishing at Bonaventure, only up and down. 



Q. If you look at your book, can you tell me if you fished at Bonaven- 

 ture ? A. I think I could from the year. 



Q. How often did you fish there? A. I could not say. 



Q. Did you fish there two years ? A. A general fishing? 



Q. Did you fish there at all, any fishing whatever ? A. I have fished 

 off Bonaventure, but I made no general fishing. 



Q. Did you fish there for two years, or did you fish on two differen 

 occasions in one year? A. I could not say. 



Q. Have you been there on more than one occasion in a year, or 

 once one year? A. I know I was there two different year*. 



Q. Were you there more than once in one year? A. Perhaps I have 

 been there more, perhans less. 



Q. You don't know how often you have been there ? 

 tell the exact time. I know I have been there and fished there. 



Q. From 1852 down to the present hour, how many times 

 been there ? A. I could not say, because I don't know. 



Q. Have you been there twice ? A. Yes ; probably I ha\ 



Q. Have you been there three, four, five, seven, or ten t 

 could not say. 



Q. Have you been there twenty times ? A. I could 

 memory does not serve me. 



Q. Have you been there one hundred times 



Q. Have you been there fifty times? A. No. 



