A Canadian Family

Genealogy, Family History & Vintage Postcards

Map: Baie des Chaleurs, 1769

If you skim through our Ward/Luce and other Canadian Jersey lines you’ll notice that there’s a lot of movement between Gaspe and  Shippegan/Miscou. Nowadays, we see these as two places – one in Quebec and one in New Brunswick – but to the fishermen of centuries past, all the land around the Baie des Chaleurs was seen as one large region bordering fertile fisheries.

Partie du Canada ou se trouvent le Fleuve St.Laurent/Didier Robert de Vaugondy

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Detail (cropped & enlarged)

Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786.

Partie du Canada où se trouvent le Fleuve St. Laurent et La Nouvelle Ecosse?. – 
Scale [ca. 1:5 800 000] (W 76º–W 61º/N 52º–N 44º). — [Paris : s.n., 1769].
1 map : hand col. ; 17 x 22 cm. 
LOCATION: G3402.S3 1769 R6 RBD Map

 

 

Related Post:

Map: Lamecque, Miscou, Shippegan

Further Reading:

La Collection W.H. Pugsley de Cartes Anciennes du Canada

 

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Vintage Postcard: VRAIC?

Seaweed has been an important part of Jersey life for well over 800 years, so our own Luce ancestors

would have been quite familiar with scenes of seaweed harvesting like the one below.

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Seaweed was a fertilizer for Jersey farming families until well into the early 1900s, since Jersey’s very sandy soil made fertilization crucial and the seaweed was readily available.

Here’s a fascinating excerpt from Plees’ Account of the Island of Jersey from the early 1800s.

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