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,1]! 3;. Land Commission 1875: v ' ”(at in” Fir: on 'the portion of Lot 9 which adjoins Lot 10’, SB ‘ Fir: on ’the vacant land' of Lot 10. , . K ' 'barrens covered wrth var. r #N‘ ,, . , 1: , , / Pi? ,/ // / / / ' / 'fir’. /” $591k? / // Morris 1769: // ) 27¢?“ / / sesner 1846- a thick growth offir’. " V 77 (t Ev >~ \ / / / Ready 1899: 'fir': [an element of the original forest along the 3 v4 filflfa / , / coast of Lot 20] ’extending nearly two miles inland’. l: /‘ LL /‘\.’, \R / K \i ,7 \ Chappell 1775-1818: [used] wood of 'fir', \ a Aural \ £5 1 \ _ .. A: r? g t .\ [Lawson] 1877-1878: 'firs’: [an element of the original forest at New London]. Stewart 1831' 9 / a \ /' ' x 5;: l \ Bain 1868-1884: '[at] Springfield: fir occurs in hollows'. Lot 46: 'the woods mostly fir', ' _ J. ‘\ \ \\ // / . r - r . Molllson (c. 1906). f“? f r, k . / [Bain] 1883: At ’Elliot’s’: ’fir’lan element otthe forest]. . Lot 47. there are few firs. vnorthem border of l gees g , y 1 _ *\ L0! 72'? ’firtrees‘. :1 7 , \I‘v\.\\ /’ Land Commission 1875: ‘ ‘ S ’15 a n1 ‘1 " k // ’a little growth of fir’. ,1 9M 70‘“ «(\-

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/ / (Qv a“ k/ fi\ ‘ 1““ ( Gesner 1846: l \ ////\,\7 / (flu/r4 y \\ M? [along] 'the shore westward of Fifteen Point': ’the ‘ *' /// , low tracts and swamps are covered by fir’. // U ../ / :2:\ E Patterson 1770' ' i // .9 l, 'several sorts of small firs' Kfifiv c in the area of Charlottetown )3 v/ 'where the land is not cultivated: groves of“ fir’. ‘ “ T/ ,,/\< \ WM) ff; K ,l</[ I w . . ”(’H . r» ,5 {If}: r, *,4‘§~> kg 41%“ >5 ‘3‘ NF’l twp ‘J/j Marryat 18292 Macoun 1894: ‘ij \\ ¥§K§éQi¥L / / “Mm 9‘ [somewhere along the [along Brack/ey Point Road. ] 'beautitul , ' ”\R // coast of Lot 56]: [made specimens of balsam [fir]’ , \““\-\ T” H use at] ’boughs of fir”. 5' [Bain] 1882: [Lawson] 1877- 1878: ’Firs’: in ’the ‘fine fir groves” by the main L” ancient forest‘. road near Vernon River bridge‘.

FIGURE 1-3. The geographically-locatable references to balsam fir in the records of the British period. (* The ‘fir' of Stewart (1831) in Lots 46 and 47 may actually refer to pine - see the main text).