THE CHEVAHER DE ST. PAUL 



later our captain guided us safely in the Sea 

 Star among the maze of islands from Old Fort 

 into the mouth of the Esquimaux or St. Paul 

 River to "Chevalier's Settlement," and we 

 paid our respects to Louis Owen Chevalier, 

 whose father, Louis David, was a baby at the 

 time that Audubon passed along the coast. 

 His first ancestor to come to the New World 

 was Jean Godefroy, who sailed from Lintot, 

 Normandy, in 1626. He settled at Three Riv- 

 ers when the town was founded in 1634, and 

 in 1669 he was ennobled as the Chevalier de 

 St. Paul. His third son, Jean Amador Gode- 

 froy de St. Paul, was a fur-trader along the 

 Labrador coast. On the 20th of March, 1706, 

 he was granted by Philippe de Rigaud, Mar- 

 quis of Vaudreuil and Governor of New France, 

 a large tract of land, ten leagues frontage by 

 ten leagues in depth, on "La Grande Riviere, 

 pays des Esquimaux." ^ This seigniory has 

 been passed from father to son, although we 

 were told that the papers are now lost and 

 that the present representative does not retain 

 his privileges. 



' I am indebted for this information to Mr. L. P. Sylvain, 

 Assistant Librarian of the Library of Parliament at Ottawa. 



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