TABLE 1. trees of the island.

Length of time spent on the island prior to the record

Length of time spent elsewhere in North America prior to record

RECORDER

Cartier (1534) (explorer)

2 days (29 June - 1 July) 0. 50 days.

Champlain (1632) (explorer and commandant at Quebec)

probably nil 26 years — off and on.

Denys (1672) (entrepreneur in Acadia)

mentions one visit of 40 years — off and on. unknown date and

duration.

Background information on the recorders of relevance to their tree descriptions; and the nature of their comments on the forests and/or

Parts of the island visited/seen prior to the record

Type of forest or tree record

0 general forest comment 0 tree species list

coastal visits: from Cape Kildare?, west along the

coast to North Cape, and then south towards West Point.

probably none 0 general forest comment

0 general forest comment 0 partial tree species list

unknown, but the visit he mentions may have been at Cascumpec Bay.

Couagne (1713) since birth — c. 26 years. apparently none 0 timber resource comment (military surveyor at Louisbourg)

[Louis XV] (1719) 0 hypothetical timber

(king of France) resources

Gotteville (1720) (commandant at Port La-Joie)

c. 2-3 months. 11 years — off and on.

0 general forest comment 0 tree species list 0 timber resource comment

Port La-Joie area and perhaps elsewhere.

La Ronde (1721) 0. one year. 29 years — off and on. certainly Port La-Joie area, 0 general forest comment (military officer at Port La—Joie) and probably much wider. 0 timber resource comment

Saint-Ovide (1719-1732) (governor at Louisbourg)

nil in 1719 and 1725; from by 1719: 27 years — off 1726 possibly annual

visits, each of a few days

to a few weeks.

0 general forest comment

0 trees at specific areas

0 mast materials

0 timber resource comments

Port La-Joie area; possibly elsewhere as well.

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