The front cover shows:

Etienne Verrier’s Plan of Port La Joye (1734). A view of the proposed fort at Port La-Joie (showing woods in the background). [From a copy in the Cartographic and Architectural Archives Division, Public

Archives of Canada; the original is in the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris, Cabinet des Estampes, Vd. 20a, fol. 42.]

Gotteville de Belile’s report to the Council of the Marine (1720). [From a copy in the Public Archives of Canada: AC, CHA, Vol. 43, fol. 134; the original is in the Archives des Colonies, Paris]

Map of Isle St. Jean (c. 17305). [From a copy in the Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Record Office: Map 0,547; the original is in the Public Records Office, London: CO 700 (Prince Edward Island 1).]