TABLE 1 (continued). Background information on the recorders of relevance to their tree descriptions; and the nature of their comments on the forests and/or trees of the island.

Length of time spent on Length of time spent Parts of the island Type of forest or tree RECORDER the island prior to the elsewhere in North visited/seen prior to the record record America prior to record record

Pensens (1725-1732) nil in 1725; by 1732: 6 by 1725: 27 years. by 1732 likely to have visited I mast materials

(commandant at Port La-Joie) years — off and on. all the settled areas of the 0 trees at specific areas island (i.e. Port La-Joie, 0 timber resource comment Hillsborough River, St. Peters Bay, Tracadie, Malpeque Bay.) Mézy (1726-1728) by 1725: 7 years. 0 mast materials (commissaire at Louisbourg) 0 general forest comment Maurepas (1726-1732) 0 mast materials (minister of Marine, Versailles) 0 timber resource comment Beauharnois (1726, 1729) 3 years 0 mast materials (intendant at Rochefort, France) Anon. (1730) 0 timber resource comment (? official in the Marine, France) [Louis XV] (1731) 0 hypothetical timber (king of France) resources

Verrier (1733, 1734) could be from several days by 1733: 9 years. Port La-Joie area; possibly 0 timber resource comments (chief military engineer at to a few weeks in 1733. elsewhere as well. Louisbourg)

Boulaye (1733) 0 timber resource comment (.7 official in the Marine, France) 0 mast materials Arrigrand? (17305?) unknown by 1730: c. 4 years off unknown 0 trees at specific areas (entrepreneur at Louisbourg) and on.

Roma (1734, 1750) 2 years by 1734; by nil .7 Trois Riviéres (Cardigan Bay) 0 general forest comments (proprietor and entrepreneur at 1750: 14 years. area; St. Peters Bay area; 0 trees at specific areas Trois Rivieres) through the woods to Port 0 tree species list

La-Joie and Saint-Pierre. 0 timber resource comment