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    This description is close enough to one collected in Newfoundland to suggest a kinship between the two. The Breton origins of numerous French Newfoundlanders is proved by linguistic evidence. The French geographer Pierre Biays, who visited Cape St. George in 1951, met old Frenchmen who spoke Breton together. Twenty years later it was no longer possible to hear this Celtic tongue spoken; only a few deformed and scarcely recognizable words remained in their children's memories.

    Yet family names on the peninsula are also eloquent. Bozec, Comic (or LeCornic, today, Comect), Carrautret (or Karotret, pronounced Cowtrett, extinct now in the area), Lagatdu, Kerfont or Karfont, Tallec (written Tallack), Scardin (or Scardon, Secardon), Robin (often written today as Robia or Rubia and pronounced in the English fashion), Rivolan, Huon and still others are either typically Breton names or common in the region of St. Malo and its hinterland. Oral evidence frequently tells us that the first bearers of these names were Breton speakers.

    Other names found on the peninsula and associated with the western provinces of France include Chrétien (Christian), Dubé, Dubois, Félix, Formanger, Lecoure, Lecointe (often written Lecountre or Lecointre), Leroy, Louvelle (or Nouvelle), Lemoine, Lainey, Marche, Renouf, Retieffe, Rouzes, Savidon and Simon. There are families in the villages of Black Duck Brook, Winterhouses, Mainland and Cape St. George which have more or less acknowledged ties with contemporary St. Pierre families, such as the Briands, Morazés, Ozons, Poiriers and Simons.