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Citadel Quebec July 5th, 1939 Dear Elsie, I must send you a line to say how enormously I enjoyed being at Metis and to thank you and Mr. […]
Thomas Fenwick (1830-1905) was a Presbyterian minister in Metis and an artist of some talent. While ministering to the Presbyterians at Leggatt’s Point, he painted in his spare […]
Key to any fishing camp was the ice house. It was in these modest buildings that the catch of the day would have been placed preciously as the […]
Owning a river meant protecting it. Even though he had left Canada for England in the 1890s, Lord Mount Stephen continued to own and manage the Metis River. […]
Percy Nobbs was a Montreal architect and professor of architecture – best known today for the building on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal that is now the McCord Museum. […]
Robert Wilson Reford spent much of his youth in Little Metis, where his father built a large house overlooking the St. Lawrence River. When he married Elsie Reford […]
Elsie Reford is unusual in the annals of fishing in being a woman and owner of a fishing camp. She was given Estevan Lodge and the fishing rights […]
This 1829 map shows the three seigneuries along the Mitis River that were granted during the French Regime. The Seigneurie de Mitis or de Pieras was granted on […]
Matthew MacNider purchased the Mitis seigneurie in 1802. He was a Scot with a timber business based in Quebec City and is credited with beginning the first efforts […]
George Stephen is considered to be one of the pioneers and first promoters of salmon fishing in the Gaspésie region. This fishing book chronicles the salmon he and […]
An avid fisherman like Elsie Reford chronicled every fish she caught, registering its weight, noting the fly used to catch the fish, the conditions of the water (rising […]
The daily, monthly and annual tally of salmon caught on the Metis River was an important statistic. The data was compiled and shared among those offered the privilege […]
