Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 34
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The Darby sailed at 6.20 P.M. and I have good accommodation. I can expect a boat at Anticosti very ten days. The tides at Quebec is 18 feet, Autumn to Three Rivers at Anticosti 6 feet. On the way to Anticosti Friday June 5. No sea on and slept fairly well and awoke not feeling particularly bad. After breakfast Mr. Royes showed me his Anticosti pictures and I was gre- atly surprised with the considerable civil- ization established on the west end of Anti- costi by Mr. Grenier. His chateau is certainly a handsome frame home with many gables, a luxury in the wilderness. Here he has an automobile and a fine road runs some 12 miles from Engholm Bay to Ellis Bay. This road cost more than