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.



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