1m, LABRADOR 
who, when presented at the French court, filled with admi- 
ration the young king, Louis XVI. 
The conquest of Canada in 1763 by the English worked a 
revolution on the Labrador coast. Shortly after the con- 
quest many of the French-Canadian gentry went back 
to France; we know, for instance, that in 1767 Captain 
Croizille de Courtemanche, half-brother of M. de Brouague, 
went back. At the same time there flocked into the coun- 
try a number of English and Scotch adventurers — “four 
hundred and fifty contemptible sutlers and traders,” as Gov- 
ernor Murray called them. Some of these men bought up 
the concessions along the Labrador coast which the French 
Canadians were leaving. Between 1759 and 1808 they 
acquired nearly the whole coast from the Mingan Islands 
to Bradore Bay, and formed what was known as the Lab- 
rador Company, the leading spirit in which was Mathew 
Lymburner, the Quebec merchant who spoke so ably at 
the bar of the House of Commons in Westminster against 
the Constitutional Act of 1791. 
From 1763 also dates the first authentic account of a 
settled English fishery between the Strait of Belle Isle 
and Hamilton Inlet. Under the French régime Canada 
had included all Labrador; but by the proclamation of 
1763 its eastern boundary became the River St. John. 
Labrador and Anticosti were annexed to Newfoundland. 
Adventurers immediately began to establish themselves 
in the new territory. Captain Nicholas Darby, of Bristol, 
set up near Cape Charles, and the firm of Noble and Pinson, 
long well known on the coast, began to do business at 
Temple Bay. 
