McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
French to two Gentlemen of the name of Mingan and Anticosti for Sevices rendered in war[.] Their descendants possessing no commercial spirit at the Conquest of Canada disposed of them to some of the first English Settlers for a mere song[.]
The Labradore coast beyond those Seignories has been left unappropriated – and is a common to which all nations at peace with England may resort unmolested for furs, oil, codfish and salmon[.]
Lyburner and Crawfords seal fisheries occupying about forty five leagues come next in rotation after which the coast is inhabited by Eskimaux and a mixture of English Irish and Canadians commonly called planters who trade with the Eskimaux and carry on salmon and Codfisheries along the Staits of Belisle as far as Great Eskimaux Bay in Lat: 54.20 Long: 57.30[.]
The last settlement of which we have any knowledge on this side of Hudson's Bay was formed some years ago eighty leagues farther by a party of Dutch who stile themselves the Moravian Company[.] These people pretend to have a grant from the
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