Brest on the Quebec Labrador
By: by Samuel Edward Dawson.
Contributors: Dawson, Samuel Edward, 1833-1916.
Publisher: J. Hope & Sons; Copp-Clark Co.; Bernard Quaritch
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Ottawa; Toronto; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Canada -- Description and travel; Québec (Province) -- Description and travel; Labrador (N.L.) -- Description and travel
Notes: Title from cover.
At head of title;  From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Second series 1905-1906. Volume XI, section II English history, literature, archaeology, etc.
"Read May 24, 1905."
A reprint, with notes and translation, from a copy in the Lenox Library, New York, of a tract published at Lyons in 1609 under title: Coppre d'une lettre envoyee de la Nouvelle France, or Canada, par le sieur de Cöbes, gentilhomme poicteoin, a un sien amy. En laquelle sont briefuement descrites les merueilles, excellences, & richesses du pays, ensemble la facon & moeurs de ceux qui l'habitent, la gloire des Francois, & l'esperance qu'il ya de rendre l'Amerique chrestienne ...MDCIX.
The notes (p. 18-30) are chiefly occupied with a discussion as to the location of the former settlement or harbor of Brest on the Labrador coast, province of Quebec, of which mention is made in the evidently fictitious narrative of Des Combes.
In English with original letters and documents in French and also translated to English.