. Transactions . ny discoveryis reported. The affairs of the colony were then in the control ofthe West India Company, who amongst other monopolies had aright to all mines and minerals.* Specimens of the iron-ore wereexamined in Quebec in 1668 by the Sieur la Potardiere, who reportedunfavorably on them. In 1671, Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, was appointedgovernor of La Nouvelle France ; and in the original manuscripts re-lating to his administration some allusion is occasionally found tothe St. Maurice iron In a letter to the Imperial Govern-ment, dated 2d November, 1672, he says
. Transactions . ny discoveryis reported. The affairs of the colony were then in the control ofthe West India Company, who amongst other monopolies had aright to all mines and minerals.* Specimens of the iron-ore wereexamined in Quebec in 1668 by the Sieur la Potardiere, who reportedunfavorably on them. In 1671, Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, was appointedgovernor of La Nouvelle France ; and in the original manuscripts re-lating to his administration some allusion is occasionally found tothe St. Maurice iron In a letter to the Imperial Govern-ment, dated 2d November, 1672, he says: The iron mine of which I have already spoken is of great conse-quence. I have visited it myself, in order that I may be enabled togive a more accurate account of its nature. I am gratified to learnthat another mine has been discovered in Champlain, which is muchricher than the Cap de la Madelaine mine, and the ore is in greater * Smiths Canada, 1851, vol. 1, p. xlvii. f British and Canadian Review, by Transaction? a «n Institute ol lining Engineers. Vol. XIV.
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