Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . alliser. With the excep-tion, of course, of the French-Canadians found bythe English in possession of the greater portion ofthe shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Straitsof Belle Isle. We have already heard how Coughlanafterwards went into partnership with Cartwright andLucas, and later separated from them, but still con-tinued to carry on several establishments, one of themin 1777 being sixty miles north of the Mealey Moun-tains, probably in the neighbourhood of Indian Har-bour, but possibly in Hamilton Inlet. The principalfirm o
Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . alliser. With the excep-tion, of course, of the French-Canadians found bythe English in possession of the greater portion ofthe shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Straitsof Belle Isle. We have already heard how Coughlanafterwards went into partnership with Cartwright andLucas, and later separated from them, but still con-tinued to carry on several establishments, one of themin 1777 being sixty miles north of the Mealey Moun-tains, probably in the neighbourhood of Indian Har-bour, but possibly in Hamilton Inlet. The principalfirm on the Labrador at this time was Noble andPinson, the partners being Mr. John Noble, of Bristol,and Mr. Andrew Pinson, of Dartmouth. I have notascertained when they began business on the Labrador,but their trade was well established and flourishing in1771, when they applied for a grant of Temple Bay, atwhich time they had four ships and a hundred and fiftymen employed. They were great rivals of GeorgeCartwright, and were evidently too much for that in-. i THE BRITISH FISHERIES 383 genuous pioneer. His aspersions of them appear tohave been well merited. They also lost heavily by theAmerican privateers, and again in 1796 at the handsof the French under Admiral Richer}/; but in 1818,when Lieut. Chappell visited the coast, they were oncemore flourishing, having establishments at Lance-a-loup,Temple Bay, and Sandwich Bay. The managingpartner was a Mr. Pinson, who had spent twentyyears on coast. Cartwright also mentions in his diary the followingfirms: Adam Lymburner, of Quebec, who was thefirst to go into Hamilton Inlet furring and trading;Coughlan and Hooper; Slade and Co.; B. Lester andCo.; our old friend Mr. Nicholas Darby; and Thomas,whose firm name I have not ascertained. Several ofthese firms continued honourable careers well on intothe nineteenth century. In 1807 the Lymburner mentioned by Cartwright, ora descendant, associated with several others, acquiredby purchase the seig
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