cost to the Marine of the fitting out of its own ships — he implies ships that would otherwise be returning empty could be used.18

In the end, Boulaye’s proposal seems to have died a death in the department of the Marine. It may not even have reached the minister's desk. Even if it had, given Maurepas’ directive of 1729 that no further masts and planks were to be sent from lle Saint-Jean”, and the general disinclination to import wood from New France thereafter”, its contents are not likely to have reached the ears of the Marine’s officials at either Louisbourg or on lle Saint-Jean.

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Bamford, P. W. (1956) Forests and French Sea Power 1660-1789. University of Toronto Press.

Eccles, W. J. (1964) Canada under Louis XIV 7663-7 701. Canadian Centenary Series. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto.

Lower, A. R. M. (1973) Great Britain’s Wood—yard — British America and the Timber Trade 1763- 1867. McGill-Oueen’s University Press.

Miquelon, D. (1987) New France 7701-1744: ’A Supplement to Europe’. Canadian Centenary Series. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto.

Moore, C. (1979) The other Louisbourg: trade and merchant enterprise in He Royale 1713-58. Histoire Socia/e — Social History, 12: 79—86.

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Proulx, G. (1984) Entre France et Nouve/le France. Marcel Broquet, LaPrairie, Ouébec.

‘8 The cost to the Marine of fitting out one of its own ships for a trans-Atlantic journey was an expensive operation (Proulx 1984).

'9 See Appendix 3.

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