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3. ROBERT DE CAIX
    April 8, 1904 France abandoned her fishing rights on the French Shore. Robert de Caix, editor of the Journal des Débats who had visited Newfoundland published an inquiry entitled Terre-Neuve, Saint-Pierre et le French Shore; la question des pêcheurs et le traite du 8 avril 1904 (the question of the fisheries and the Treaty of April 8, 1904). He did not directly cite Red Island but described a fishing settlement which could not have been other than that:

    A few cabins perch on the side of an isle of red conglomerate. The pebble beach is so narrow that nothing can fit between the high water mark and the cliff. There cabins may be seen leaning on the latter, suspended above the pebbles by long wooden crutches. Some of them, finally are lifted on the higher plateau which provides to the fishermen some potatoes and the milk of some cows.