The fire of 1736.

The woods at Trois Riv/eras.

The fire of 1736.

1737: 23 October [signed by Saint-Ovide and Le Normant]

Nous vous avons informé I’annee derniere de la triste situation dans Iaquelle les habitants de I’isle 8'. Jean etoient reduites par le feu qui avoit brullé leur semences et desolé leurs terres, nous avons rendu compte en meme temps a Monseigneur que pour aider a leur subsistance et les metre en estat de recommancer leur semences le primptems dernier nous leurs avions fait donner quelques vivres des magazins du Roy, et que M'. Lenormant avoit fait venir vingt Barique de bled de Canada pour eux.

[PAC, AC, CHB, Vol. 19, fol. 16v]

1734: 5 November

I accompanied Monsieur de Saint-Ovide on the tour that he made this summer to lie Saint-Jean [foL 211v]

After departing from Port La—Joie we were at the harbour of Trois Riviéres the two rivers at the back of this harbour can be considered as two basins where one can put

ships in safety at all seasons, there are woods of all kinds and the soil seems not bad. [fo|s. 213v—214]

[PAC, AC, C“B, Vol. 15, fols. 211-215v] 1736: 13 November

l have ordered Sieur Dubuisson [the sub-delegate of the intendant], at the request of Monsieur de Saint-Ovide and Monsieur de Pensens, to assist the residents of lie Saint- Jean who are the most in need, using the amount remaining [of the supplies for the garrison], the fire having destroyed all this year's seed of most of them. it is necessary to also distribute to these residents in co—operation with Sieur Duhaget who is in command on the island, the twenty hogheads of wheat for sowing that Monsieur Hocquart [the intendant at Quebec] sent us

[PAC, AC, CHB, Vol. 18, fol. 99]

1737: 23 October [signed by Saint-Ovide and Le Normant]

We informed you last year of the sad situation to which the residents of lle Saint-Jean were reduced by the fire which had burned their crops and desolated their lands. We reported at the same time to your honour that in order to help them survive and to put them in a position to re—commence their sowing last spring we had had them supplied with some provisions from the King's stores, and that Monsieur Lenormant had delivered twenty hogsheads of wheat from Canada for them.

[PAC, AC, CHB, Vol. 19, fol. 16V]