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mandant in every way to facilitate the erection of the necessary buildings for the garrison and in gen- eral to do everything that his zeal might suggest for the good of the service, of order, religion, justice, the increase of the inhabitants, the cultivation of land, the multiplication of cattle, the progress of the fish- ery, being careful to inform the officials at Louisburg of all that transpired and to give frequent and exact accounts of the consumption of food and merchan- dise.°

De Bonnaventure’s first duty was to reéstablish the capital of the colony and to provide accommoda- tion for the officers and troops. Before winter he had completed the following buildings: office of the Com- mandant, guardhouse, quarters of the Commandant, barracks, flour magazine, quarters of the subalterns, dry-goods magazine, bakery, stables, forges, quar- ters of the captain of the troops, molasses magazine, quarters of the surgeon and chaplain, powder- vault, and prison. All these were constructed of wood in the most temporary fashion, but Franquet thought that the works had not been done economi- cally as they had cost more than 9000 livres.?°

Owing to the events transpiring in Acadia and to the pressure and encouragement of the French offi- cials and missionaries a steady stream of immigrants flowed into Isle Saint Jean from 1749 to 1751. The first came from Beaubassin. Their settlement had been in the English territory contiguous to the

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