PROPERTY Of UJ>„fJL DeSable remains today aa one of the surviving names of the old French regime on Prince Edward Island . It is recorded both by French Census of 1752 and a later report of T. Pichon , French Army Officer and traveller, that here several families totalling 30 people were found settled on the banks and upper reaches of a tidal river which they had named "The Sable or 'Riviere de Sable1 - River of Sand". The harbour entrance from the sea appears on early French maps as Anse Du Quest - Cove, or of . It is likely that these settlers came, not directly from France, but across the Northumberland Strait from the mainland of Acadia after the war between Britain and France 1745 - 1748. At any rate, it was reported as a thriving and pros- s