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NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 26 May 2012 9:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Anticosti Island belongs to Quebec. A group of Newfoundland fishermen and their families were enticed to go there by the Anticosti Company approx 1873. I have no information that E Marshall was in Newfoundland.

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 3 Mar 2013 8:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: gallant, corcoran
Hi, my grandmother was Pearl Corcoran who married Albert Poole. I believe Catherine Gallant was my great great grandmother. Any connection?

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 3 Mar 2013 8:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, my great grandfather was Daniel Whiting and my grandfather was Hugh Hoyles Whiting born in Spoon Cove, Newfoundland. He first married Annie Stacey on anticosti and then married my Grandmother Catherine Gallant. they left Anticosti when the federal government expelled them about 1900.

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 3 Mar 2013 11:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gallant, Stacey, Hoyles, Whiting, Corcoran
This post was deleted by the author on 5 Mar 2013 5:47PM GMT

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 5 Mar 2013 3:39AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you Edward for your response. I have only received this message from you as far as I can tell.

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 5 Mar 2013 3:46AM GMT
Classification: Query
I just spoke to my mother. She thinks that I do have the right family and is double checking with my uncles. My great grandmother was Annie Whiting. I am now reading up on the history of the families of Fox Bay and find it quite interesting and shocking. Thank you for your response.

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 5 Mar 2013 8:02AM GMT
Classification: Query
Have you been in touch with Sandra Lucia, granddaughter of Catherine Gallant and Hugh Hoyles Whiting? Possibly there's a link, and some answers, there. Her email is sl@hawk.igs.net.
I have a photo labeled Hugh Hoyles that I believe is Hugh Hoyles Whiting I'm attaching it for the possible connection with Catherine Gallant.
I have no knowledge of Poole or Corcoran--though a Ms. Corcoran, a very elderly lady, was my landlady in Vancouver around 1962.
Best wishes for success in your quest.
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Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 5 Mar 2013 11:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 6 Mar 2013 3:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
Good evening! My email has changed to psluchia@gmail.com. It has been awhile since we corresponded but I am not related to Catherine or Hugh. My great-great-grandparents, Charles and Catherine (Sargent) Nicolle lived at Fox Bay, Anticosti Island from approx. 1874 - 1880.

I would like to gather information about the first group of Newfoundland fisherman that were enticed to settle at Fox Bay in 1874. It was a tough time and not prepared for winter, some sailed for help and never returned. My great grandmother's first husband, George Francis, was "lost at sea" and I often wonder if he was one of the settlers that sailed for help in the fall of 1874. She later married Charles Nicolle when he arrived at Fox Bay approx 1875. Charles helped raise her three sons, George, John and Eli and together they had two daughters, Emily and Fanny and a son, Douglas, while residing at Fox Bay.

Re: NFLD fisherman and Fox Bay, Anticosti Island

Posted: 6 Mar 2013 8:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
What was done at Fox Bay was a monstrous crime. My grandmother, 60 years later, shook with anger when she talked about it.
I personally knew four of the Fox Bay settlers. How bitterly I regret that I did not ask them for the full story. I was young and they were old, and I didn't really understand what had happened.
Is there anyone who could gather the scraps of information that are readily available, perhaps interview descendants of the Fox Bay settlers? I cannot undertake this; I live in Nicaragua and don't have the health or dollars for travel and research.
btw, my great-grandfather Robert Horne was also "lost at sea" around 1880. He was from PEI and I don't know for sure that he ever lived at Fox Bay. His wife and son were there.
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