Saturday, January 12, 2008

On this day in Our Islands History

In 1895, the government sanctioned the law, voted on in 1894, to discretely re-purchase the lands of the Magdalen Islands.

- from the official website of the Magdalen Islands

Ephemerides by Lise Bouffard

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In 1987, there was a general assembly for the foundation of the Corporation for the access and the protection of Brion Island, held at the Carrefour Unite, in Grindstone. The December before in 1986, his honour Judge Frederic Dorion authorized the government of Quebec to acquire Brion Islands from the Texaco Company for the sum of $395,000. In the establishment of the value of the island, the judge advantageously favoured the usage of the conservation the would be used in the form of recreation.

- From the chronicle's of historian Father Frédéric Landry
Événements Historiques Agenda (Septembre 1993 à Septembre 1994)

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