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by(e)-boat keeper

Nfld, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1793 quote.

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1765

No Inhabitant of Newfoundland, no By-Boatkeeper . . . shall, on any Pretence whatsoever, go to the Coast of Labradore.

1793

The private boat-keepers here spoken of, or bye boat-keepers, as they otherwise were called, are described as persons who, not being willing or able to buy a share in a fishing ship, hired servants in the west of England, and carried them as passengers to Newfoundland, where they employed them in private boats to catch and cure fish; and when the season was over, they brought them back to England, or permitted them to take service with the planters, or on board the ships.

1842

Bye-boat keepers were persons who went out to Newfoundland to keep boats for a fishing voyage.