St Pierre
An island on the southern coast of Newfoundland, which,
with the Miquelon Islands immediately north-west, constitute all that
remains of New France still under French government. From 1635 it was
alternately under British and French control until 1816, when it was
finally ceded to France. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) French captured by Kirke, landed
on, 174.