CHAPTER XIV. 



SALMON-RIVERS OF THE- BRITISH PROVINCES. 



Salmon-Rivers of Lower Canada. — Salmon-rivers emptying into or tribu- 

 tary to rivers flowing into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Chaleurs. 



Salmon-Rivers of New Brunswick, and those of Canada adjacent. — 

 Mirimichi. — Ristigouche. — Metapediac. — Caseapediacs. — Bonaventure. 

 — Tittigouche. — Nipissiguit. 



SALMON-RIVERS IN LOWER CANADA. 



In the year 1858 the Colonial Government resumed pos 

 session of all the Salmon and Sea-Trout fisheries in Lower 

 Canada, and having procured the enactment of a protective 

 law, subsequently offered them for lease by public tender in 

 the following advertisement, which was issued from the fish- 

 eries branch of the Crown Land Department, in December, 

 1858. I have added a few rivers not found in the original, 

 and have altered many of the descriptive remarks, on the 

 authority of the reports issued annually by the Department, 

 and of information received from correspondents. The laws 

 and by-laws quoted are still in force, but the Canadian 

 Government has at the present time (March, 1865) new and 

 more effectively protective legislation in progress : — 



"The following list includes the principal Salmon-rivers 

 and Sea-Trout streams which discharge into the Saint Law- 

 rence and Saguenay Eivers, along tbe north-east or Labrador 

 coast, between the province boundary eastwards (Blanc 

 Sablon), and the river Jacques Cartier, above Quebec ; also 



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