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In 1774, Labrador was annexed to the Province of Quebec. Lower Canada was then amputated from this vast coastal territory in 1809, to the benefit of the government of Newfoundland. A new act of the British Parliament finally connected Anticosti Island, Minganie and the Lower North Shore to Lower Canada in 1825. This article provides a portrait of the administration of the North Shore from 1774 to 1809 and identifies the reaction of Lower Canada's parliamentarians to the loss of Labrador from 1809 to 1825. The colonial government's armed brig in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence then enters the picture. From 1827 to 1831, the Kingfisher, commanded by Captain William Kinnear Rayside, protected the fishermen of the North Shore, as well as those of the Gaspé Peninsula and the Magdalen Islands: a brief adventure that was to be the prelude to what Pierre Fortin would do aboard La Canadienne from 1852 to 1867.
Keywords: Labrador, Côte-Nord, Bas-Canada, Terre-Neuve, William Kinnear Rayside, Labrador, North Shore (Côte-Nord), Lower Canada, Newfoudland, William Kinnear Rayside
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