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Charles Robin
Charles Robin was a Jersey merchant who founded a major cod-fishing business on the Gaspé coast of Quebec after the British conquest of New France. From his base at Paspébiac from 1766 he bought and dried fish caught by local fishermen and shipped it to markets in Europe and the Americas. His firm dominated the Gaspé fishery for more than a century.
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