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Title: Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gosling, William Gilbert, b. 1863
Subjects: Labrador (N.L.) -- History
Publisher: London : A. Rivers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ere doing what they liked with the fish. Lieutenant Chimmo found by careful observation that the whole coast had been placed on the charts ten or eleven miles too far to the eastward. His only chart was that of Lane, drawn in 1772, which he found very incorrect. The coast had not been surveyed since. When he reached Cape Harrison he was informed that about 200 Newfoundland vessels were fishing at Windy Tickle, 180 miles still farther north. He went into Aillik, where the Hudson Bay Company had a station, and also called at Hopedale. Coming south he stopped at Indian Tickle, and was given a glowing account of the Labrador fishery by Mr. Warren (Matthew H.), who had his fishing rooms there. 3000 vessels were said to have passed through that well-known passage during the season, on the voyage north and return south, and the number of fishermen to have been 30,000. These seem rather large figures, and I have been able to find no evidence to support them. By the census of 1857 the population of Newfound-
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THE BRITISH FISHERIES 415 land was found to be 122,000, which would indicate about 40,000 men and boys. The number of schooners was 800, with crews approximately about 15,000 men.Making all due allowance for nine years increment, it does not seem possible that the Labrador fleet from Newfoundland could have reached the figures given by Mr. Warren. The merchants of St. Johns were much gratified at the prompt way in which the Imperial Government had carried out their request for a survey of northern Labrador, and tendered Lieutenant Chimmo their best thanks for his care in the matter. But it was not until 1876 that Commander Maxwells charts, which gave the first reliable information about the coast, were published. These charts are still in use. In 1860, Sir Leopold McClintock, in HMS Bulldog, was sent by the Imperial Government to survey a route for the proposed North Atlantic Telegraph between Great Britain and America. His course was via Iceland and Greenland to Indian Harbour on the Labrador

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