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Tracking the elusive white
—and ite uses as a
surveyor—through the brush
of land deeds and titles and
cther historical Quebec
ents is an endless

task,
One moment it is there,
then it fades away like ¢

It first showed, of all
places, in a recent speech by
ves Barube, natural
resources minister, on a bill
to amend Quebec's

Jand underwater up to the
water mark,” Barube

, "In some cases, it is up .

to the low water mark.
“There is even one case
where, todefine that mark, it
is necessary to walk a white
horse into the water up to the
point where the water
reaches his chest and that is
where the Crown land

where, when or why the

vying fol, or why it had
or w

be white.

F. Z. Lachance, now in his
60s and the last boat builder
oo le d’Orleans, says he
recalls that ald land titles for

River specified that a
vate waterfront lot extend
the point where water
reached the saddle-girth of a
horse at low tide.
“Whether it had to be a
white horse or a brown one
rs hat, I never heard of

other documents relating to
the pre-1740 French regime
and came up empty-handed.

They sald they remember
having spotted the white
horse on record on the St.
Lawrence around St.
Romuald, opposite Quebec

But, at the land reglatry
office at St. Romuald, they
had seen neither hide nor
halr of the beast,

Claude Cantin, engineer
for the municipality, says he
has heard of a white horse

wandering the hills and.

mountain tops, but not the
wateriront,

"T don’t know how true this
is but I've heard thata white
horse was used to settle the
summit of a bill or moun-
tain."':

The idea seems to have
been that a private lot on a
mountainside ended at the
point where a horse could
climb no higher.

But the search met with
greater success in the
lowlands,

Raymond Deraspe, a
notary in the justice
department, reported that he
had just seen the fabled
creature—in his cffice.

. Sure enough.

There it was standing on
lands which Consolidated
Bathurst Corp. Ltd. is in the
proceas of turning over to the
Quebec government.

The land in question is at
Cap de la Madeleine, about
125 kilometres up the St.
solidated operated. a pulp
so operated a pulp
and paper mill «until last

year.
, The Wayagamac mill and.

y has been

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unusual survey tool

Anotarial document dated .

‘June 3, 1032, and entitled

“Conveyance by St, Maurice
Valley Corporation to
Consolidated Payer Cor-
poration Limited," describes
several riverfront lots as
extending “to a depth of wa-
ter up to ‘la eangle d'un
cheval blanc.”

The entire document is in
English except for that ex-
pression—la sangle d’un
cheval blane, or the saddle-
girth of a white horse,

Though the authors took
pains to Insert the phrase in -
French in an otherwise
English text, historian Andre
Vacon, frlend of Deraspe and
a specialist on the French
regime in North America,
says that the phrase was
unknown in that regime.

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It would have. originated
under British rule.1$But
Germain Giroux, associate

director of maritime thoroughfares, he says. It
fisheries in the industry and = guaranteed a strip of public
commerce department, says land on the water's edge at
the white horse had indeed —_low tide. ;
been born under the French, Giroux's explanation
The idea was to take a sounds plausible—except
white horse out of the shore that there are no tides to
of the St. Lawrence, speak of at Cap de la

especially between Quebec
City and the mouth of the
Sagueney River where the
tides are quite high, at mid-

Madeleine.
But why a white horse?
Gilles Coulombe, at the
natural resources depart-

tide, Giroux says. men a the most sensible
Not at high tide or low tide ~ euplatatios he has heard is
but between the two, that a horse does not become

The limit of private land
was thus set at the point
where midtide reached the
belly of the horse—a white
one, of course, .
This was important in the

really white until it ia fully
grown. Hence a white horse
is equivalent to an adult
horse

Right now, he's sta in
about three feet of ome _

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