Réunion des Armateurs des iles St-Pierre et Miquelon...
St-Pierre-Terre-Neuve: Granville Impr., Noel Got. 2.68, 1868. Quarto bifolium (approx. 10½" x 8½"), 2 small nicks in the margins, slight wrinkling, but on the whole, near fine. In 1832, following the death of Napoleon II, the only northern American “colonies” that France managed to hold were St. Pierre and Miquelon, in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the last remaining vestige of the once vast territory of New France. Years of dispute between France and the new government of Canada ensued over the islands and their valuable fisheries. Canada wanted to assume France’s role in the islands, the French Shore of Newfoundland, and Labrador. In 1849 Canada recognized St. Pierre and the French Shore rights as the property of the French Republic, not Canada. As compensation, Canada inherited France's rights in Labrador. By the Parliament of 1868, the political influence of the French islands was in doubt, even as the value of the cod fishery remained high. This unaccomplished pro-forma document lays out, in 17 articles, a proposal for a union of fishermen for the “mutual insurance of the ships and schooners, weapons for the fishing of cod on the banks of the new ground…” so the French cod fishery would continue. Not found in OCLC. Item #60689
Price: $425.00
