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     ENDNOTE 1: PlN-POINTING THE SITE 
     
    
   
   
    
     Because of the amount of detail on this early 
     
     masting operation that survives in the records of 
     
     the department of the Marine in France we not 
     
     only have a good indication of the number and 
     
     sizes of the trees harvested, but can also pin-point 
     
     fairly exactly their location (see Figure 3-1). 
     
    
   
   
    
     From Pensens’ affidavit of August 1727 we know 
     
     that the site of that summer’s survey was ”in the 
     
    
   
   
    
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     portage" running from the Hillsborough River to 
     
     Savage Harbour. This portage is not the later 
     
     wagon track that ran from the top of the river to 
     
     the south-eastern corner of Savage Harbour and 
     
     thence to Havre Saint-Pierre described in Colonel 
     
     Franquet’s report of 1751114 and shown on 
     
     Captain Holland's map of 1765‘“. Rather, it is a 
     
     much shorter portage (probably following an earlier 
     
     Mi’kmaq trail), shown on two early maps of the 
     
     French period”6, that runs directly from the river 
     
     to the present Maclntyres Creek (See Figure 3-1 
     
     for its likely location). The evidence suggests that 
     
     the full-scale logging operation of the following 
     
     winter of 1727-1728 also occurred in this same 
     
     area, and it appears to have also been the source 
     
     of at least some of the 400 to 500 masts taken 
     
    
   
   
    
     earlier by the Company of lle Saint—Jean‘”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mézy’s letter of November 1728 accompanying 
     
     the mast shipment to France implies that most, if 
     
     not all, of the masts were of red pine (as appear to 
     
     have also been the masts taken earlier by the 
     
     Count of St. Pierre’s Company)118 and this leads 
     
     us to a remarkable survival: in 2001 — some 273 
     
     years later — there was still a small stand of large 
     
     red pine trees in the area of the masting operations 
     
     of the 17205. The largest trees in the stand were 
     
     about 15 inches in diameter — the size of many of 
     
     those harvested by the French in 1728. These are 
     
     far too small to have been present in the 1720s — 
     
     ring-counts from borings taken in the 19805 
     
     suggest that they originated about 1910”", but 
     
     they may well be the genetic descendants of the 
     
     mast trees. At the same time they represent the 
     
     rare survival of the same forest-type and habitat in 
     
     an area where trees of the same species were 
     
    
   
   
    
     1“ Franquet, Louis (1751) Le voyage de Franquet aux fles Royale et 
     
     Saint—Jean. (p. 118). (Published 1924 in Rapport de L‘Archiviste de 
     
     la Province de Québec pour 1923-24, pp. 111-40.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     “5 Holland, Samuel (1765) Plan of the Island of $1. John in the 
     
     Province ofNova Scotia. (PARO 0,617C). 
     
    

    
     “6 One of the maps, a copy of which is in the National Archives in 
     
     Ottawa (no. 49768), is dated 1730; the other (PARO. no. 0.547) is 
     
     undated but the details on the map suggest that it also dates from the 
     
     late 17205 or early 17303 (see Arrigrand 17305?) 
     
    

    
     "7 See footnote 109 for the evidence in support of this suggestion. 
     
     Whether this earlier operation occurred in 1723-24 (as indicated in 
     
     Saint-Ovide’s letter of 18 December 1725), or six years before (i.e. in 
     
     1720) (as implied in Maurepas’ letter of 28 May, 1726 — the source 
     
     of whose information must be the Fleury memorandum referred to in 
     
    
   
   
    
     the letter), depends on which evidence we give the greater credence 
     
     to. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “a See footnote 109. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ”9 Unpublished Island Nature Trust file on Canavoy Pines (1984).