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he found at this place. These statements have 

 until recently been generally accepted and 

 copied by historians. Dr. Samuel E. Dawson, 

 however, in a paper read before the Royal 

 Society of Canada on May 24, 1905, showed 

 that on all the early maps Brest was located 

 at Old Fort Bay. He showed, however, that 

 it was chiefly a summer fishing-port with pos- 

 sibly a blockhouse and a few men to guard 

 the property in winter, and that it was not 

 even mentioned by Champlain or Charlevoix 

 or in any of the "Jesuit Relations." It 

 is believed that the ruins found by Samuel 

 Robertson were undoubtedly those of Fort 

 Pontchartrain and the settlement made by 

 Legardeur de Courtemarche early in the 

 eighteenth century. This settlement was prob- 

 ably abandoned and fell into ruins about 1760, 

 and it was these ruins that Robertson, eighty 

 years later, thought to be the remains of the 

 town of Brest. It is interesting to note here 

 that this Samuel Robertson of Sparr Point 

 married a daughter of Mr. Jones, of Bradore 

 Bay, and it is probable that in his visits to 

 this place these erroneous ideas of Brest were 

 conceived. 



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