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from Dorsetshire. Before 1854 there was no herring-fishery 

 at the Bay of Islands ; and between it and Port-au-Choix 

 inclusively there were only 320 inhabitants in 1849^ 3,nd 460 

 in 1854.^ Of these places between the Bay of Islands and 

 Port-au-Choix, something less than villages, and more than 

 villas, Bonne Bay, Cow Cove with its families from St. George 

 Bay, and Ingornachoix with its shipbuilders, were the most 

 important ; and as on the south coast, isolated families filled to Ingoma- 

 in the interstices between the big bays* North of Port-au- ^j^^y^tji^^g 

 Choix, we hear of some Nova Scotian sailors and residents were ship- 

 in St. John Island netting seals and giving ^way innumerable ' 



11 • 1x1 i»i» ^t. J Olllt 



lobsters m 1853. Lobsters were not despised as m island, 

 Chappell's time, nor were they yet a staple export. Still "^^^^j-e tliere 

 further north, St. Barbe Bay or Anchor Point was the sters, 1853, 

 principal place, and 100 or 200 persons lived in its ntigh- and St. 

 bourhood in 1848, including Mrs. Genge, 'the mother <^^ Jhukwas 

 the settlement,' who came with her family in 181 7, and some alsoreached 

 Dorsetshire immigrants who had recently arrived.^ St. Barbe fhiplfrom 

 and its neighbourhood formed a neutral district into which th^ north- 

 southerners and westerners poured upwards from the south, 

 and a counter-current of east-coast men, Jerseymen, English- 

 men, and other residents of Labrador poured downwards 

 from the north. Up and down the whole of the west coast 

 Englishmen dwelt and Frenchmen wandered, for this was the 

 Treaty coast. The south side of Belle Isle Strait was almost 

 without settlers or wanderers. 



On the north-east extremity of Newfoundland there was Like the 

 a French base independent of St. Pierre, to which, however, ^7^^"^^ ' 

 it was second in importance. The principal fishing-rooms visitors to 



of the French were within a few miles of one another 2X*^^^?^*^"/ 



west coasts 



Quirpon, Griguet, St. Lunaire, Havres des Brehats, St. differed 

 Anthony, Cremaillere, Goose Cove, St. Julien, Croc, Cap^^^'^'^"' 



* Church in the Colonies, 1849, No. 25, p. 61. 



2 Canning's Report, uhi supra. 



3 Church in the Colonies, 1848, No. 21, p. 79 ; 1853, No. 30, p. 16 ; 

 1857, No. 35, p. II. 



