Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
 
Quebec Mercury #25 Page 199. Monday, June 20, 1808.
 
      Ship Leeds, Smith, from London, 3 month passage, addressed to Messrs. Flower and Newberry, in ballast. Intelligence: saw four vessel aground on Red Island, two on White Island and one on Hare Island.  
 
 
Quebec Gazette #2252. 23/06/1808. Page 2, Col. 4C.
 
      By William Burns on Friday next the 24th instant, on Messrs. Monro & Bell's wharf, next to Mr. Shaw's, for the benefit of the underwriters and others concerned, at one o'clock:
    The hull of the schooner Lauzon, as she now lays, or did lay, stranded on the Island of Anticosti, between Shallop River and South Point. Also, the following articles saved from her, viz: 27 puncheons rum, 2 do. molasses, 2 anchors, 2 cables, an iron cambouse, standing and running rigging, &c. &c. &c.
    Quebec 20th June, 1808
 
 
 
Quebec Gazette #2253. 30/06/1808. Page 2, Col. 3B.
 
 Trinity House, Quebec,
  Saturday, 25th June, 1808.    
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      Noel Chouinard, pilot, for and below the harbour of Quebec, found guilty of having through gross ignorance of his duty, ran the ship Hamilton, of Greenock, on the west end of Green Island, on Sunday morning the eighth day of May last, whereby she was stranded and her cargo much damaged, was with the approbation of His Excellency the Governor in Chief, declared to have forfeited his branch, and it was ordered that his name be struck off the list of pilots.
    Dominique Mariée, pilot for and below the harbour of Quebec, under suspension from his office until the 21st day of November next, was fined ten pounds currency, for having taken charge of the bark Spencer, Christopher Wilkie, Master, at Father Point, and conducting her to Quebec.
    After which it was, ordered, that, in future, persons desiring to be examined, previous to their receiving branches as pilots, do make application to the board, eight days before the day on which they wish to be so examined.
 

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