Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
Quebec Gazette #1814 30/01/1800 Page 3, Col. 1T. | ||
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Will be sold, on Friday the 21st proximo, at Burns & Woolsey's
auction room, for the benefit of the underwriters and others
concerned: The brigantine Jane of 125 tons register measurement, as she now lays stranded at Rivière-du-Loup on the south shore below Quebec. Also, her cargo, consisting on 142 barrels pot and pearl ashes, 119 hogsheads containing 774 minots flax seed, 3405 pine boards, 506 pine planks and 2600 oak staves and headings of different dimensions. Inventory of the vessel's materials to be seen at the brokers, and both her and the cargo, all of which is landed, except a part of the lumber, may be viewed on application to Mr. Glen Miller, master of the brig, living near the premises. Sale to begin at one o'clock precisely. Quebec, 29th January, 1800. |
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| Quebec Gazette #1815 06/02/1800 Page 2, Col. 1T. | ||
| The Newfoundland fishery of France, which, ten years ago, was judged to be four times greater than that of England, is now nearly sunk into annihilation, and that rich and inexhaustible source of public and private wealth is almost exclusively in possession of the English. | ||
| Quebec Gazette #1846 11/09/1800 Page 4, Col. 1T. | ||
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Will be sold, this day, Thursday, the 11th instant, on the
Queen's wharf, for the benefit of the underwriters and other
concerned: The hull of the ship Fanny, as she now lays stranded on the rocks on Beaumont, 110 tons of coals on board, an anchor of about 12 cwt, a 12 inch or thereabout cable about 70 fathoms, and the following articles that have been brought up to Quebec, viz: a long boat yawl, a 14 inch cable 120 fathoms, an anchor of about 13 cwt, and 8 inch hawser, a 7 inch towline, mizzen, main and foremast lower rigging, do. do. do., topmast do., main and fore top gallant, do., mizzen, main and fore stays, do., topmast, do. All the running rigging, 1 mainsail, 2 foresails, 4 topsails, 1 topgallant sail, 1 royal, 1 jib, 4 staysails, 2 mizzens, 1 cambouse, 2 bells, 2 six pounder cannons with carriages, 7 four pounder do. with do., 16 water casks, 6 barrels beef and pork, and 3 hogsheads tinware and corks saved from said vessel. Sale to begin at one o'clock by: |
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